No, the image was not taken in Kisumu following the Supreme Court’s decision on the 2022 presidential election.

Claim

Kisumu police use tear gas on protesters following the Supreme Court’s ruling on the presidential election.

Rating Justification

The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is False.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We reversed the image and discovered that it was taken on November 17, 2017 and shared in an article by New Vision, a Ugandan English-language newspaper, shortly after Kenyan presidential contender Raila Odinga returned to Kenya from a 10-day trip to the United States, where he visited think tanks and sought support for his contention that new elections must be held, overseen by a revamped election board.

Evidence and References

Article on Raila’s return from a 10-day trip to the US in 2017

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True

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Half True

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Misleading

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False

The claim is inaccurate according to the best evidence publicly available at this time.

Retraction

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