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  • 2020-10-27 (xsd:date)
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  • No, these photos actually show a scene from a Syrian television drama series (en)
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  • Six photos have been shared repeatedly in multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim they show a public execution of a pregnant woman in Pakistan. The claim is false; the photos have actually been captured from a Syrian television drama series set in 1920s Damascus. The photos were published in this Facebook post on October 16, 2020. They show a sequence in which a noose is hung around a crying woman's neck. A screenshot of the misleading post, taken on October 22, 2020 The post’s Tagalog-language caption translates to English as: Heartbreaking that there are countries that hang lawbreakers, these are people with beliefs contrary to god, pity the innocent baby whose life you took away / #true story in Pakistan... This woman is pregnant but they still hanged her. The photos were also shared on Facebook here and here , alongside a similar claim. The claim, however, is false. A reverse image search on Google and subsequent keyword search found all six photos match frames in this YouTube video, published on June 15, 2017. The video’s Arabic-language title states: A noose around Khatoon’s neck, sequence from Khatoon series, season 2 episode 20. Khatoon is a television drama series that aired in Syria in 2017, starring Moatasem Alnahar, Caresse Bashar and Salloum Haddad. According to online movie database IMDb , it tells a love epic story that took place during the French occupation of Damascus. Below is a set of screenshot comparisons between the photos in the misleading posts (L) and keyframes in the 2017 YouTube video (R): Screenshot comparison One of the photos in the misleading posts can also be seen in this Arabic-language report about the television series by UAE-based magazine Foocia , published in January 2020. (en)
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