2023-06-05 16:04:55
For years, a picture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been circulating on social media, whose publishers claim that he appears laughing at the moment of his death sentence in 2006.
In the picture, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appears laughing in a courtroom, and the publishers of the picture wrote, “One of them laughed when they sentenced him to death.”
However, the photo was not taken when the verdict was pronounced, rather it is from previous hearings.
The image has been circulating on social media for years, garnering thousands of interactions.
What is the real picture?
Photographers’ lenses documented moments of Saddam Hussein laughing in court, including a group of photos published by the Getty Agency for a hearing on February 14, 2006.
As for the picture of the leaflet, it was distributed by Agence France-Presse on May 30, 2006, and it is for the former Iraqi president during a hearing as well, and he was laughing during one of the witnesses testifying in court.
Six months following this session, and on the fifth of November 2006, the death sentence was issued once morest Saddam Hussein following his conviction in the Dujail Shiite massacre, in which 148 people were killed.
Thus ended the prosecutions once morest him in what is known as the Anfal case, where he was being tried on charges of genocide once morest the Kurds.
Did Saddam Hussein laugh at the moment of pronouncing the death sentence?
Video clips that documented the moment of pronouncing the verdict show Saddam Hussein standing. And as soon as the judge uttered the phrase “execution by hanging until death,” Saddam Hussein began to say out loud, “Long live the people, long live the nation, down the agents…” and he never laughed while reciting the verdict.
A month later, on December 30, 2006, the president who ruled Iraq with an iron fist was executed by hanging.
On the same night, the Iraqi government forced Saddam’s family, who received the body, to bury it quickly in his village “without delay for any reason,” according to an official document.
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