{"id":9253,"date":"2024-12-13T20:24:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T20:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2024-12-13T20:24:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T20:24:34","slug":"photo-circulates-as-saddam-hussein-leaving-sednayah-prison-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/2024\/12\/13\/photo-circulates-as-saddam-hussein-leaving-sednayah-prison-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo circulates as Saddam Hussein leaving Sednayah prison in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Social media\u00a0accounts<\/a>\u00a0posted a photo showing former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with soldiers, claiming that he was found in the Syrian prison of Sednayah. The photo was accompanied by the following claim: \u201cSaddam Hussein found in Sednayah prison.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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One source of the claim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Kashif verified the image via \u201cGoogle Images\u201d tool, and found that it was manipulated and that the claim was misleading. The original image dates back to the arrest of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili at his residence in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, in 2017. Part of the image was cropped and replaced with a picture of Saddam Hussein. The flag on the soldier\u2019s shirt was also manipulated, as the original image shows the Ukrainian flag, while the circulated image shows the Syrian flag.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Screenshot of the original image showing the Ukrainian flag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Screenshot of the circulated image showing the Syrian flag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

On 5\/12\/2017, BBC<\/a>\u00a0published\u00a0the photo in a report with the following title: \u201cSaakashvili was arrested in Kiev. But his supporters stopped him and took him to the Rada.\u201d The description reads: \u201cThe Ukrainian Security Service said that Saakashvili was arrested in connection with a case of aiding members of criminal organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Screenshot of the BBC website published on 5\/12\/2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Radiosputnik<\/a>\u00a0published\u00a0the photo on 5\/12\/2017 in a report titled: \u201cSaakashvili suffers from personal political crisis.\u201d The website stated that \u201cthe leader of the New Forces Movement party, Mikheil Saakashvili, was arrested in Kiev after threatening to jump from the roof of a house.\u201d It was stated that the photo was taken by \u201cValentin Ogirenko\u201d for Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Screenshot of \u201cradiosputnik\u201d published on 12\/5\/2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Saddam Hussein<\/a>\u00a0was executed at dawn on Saturday, 30\/12\/2006, after the Iraqi High Criminal Court issued its ruling on 29\/11\/2006 to execute him after he was arrested by American forces and handed over to the Iraqi government at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Association of Detainees and Missing Persons in Sednayah Prison<\/a>\u00a0confirmed on 9\/12\/2024 that the prison was empty of detainees in all its buildings, the white and the red, and stated that the last detainee left on 8\/12\/2024 at 11:00 AM Damascus time. Detainees were released from al-Assad’s regime prisons after the Syrian opposition factions announced control over all cities and the overthrow of al-Assad’s rule following during “Deterrence of Aggression” operation which began on 27\/12\/2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources of Claim<\/td>Sources of Verification<\/td><\/tr>

Omar Al-Saedi<\/a>

Hicham Chreif<\/a>

Hussein Khalifa<\/a>

Khaled ObeidaT<\/a>

Ali Al-Shammari<\/a>
<\/td>		BBC<\/a>

radiosputnik<\/a>

Al Jazeera<\/a>

Association of Detainees and Missing Persons of Sednaya Prison<\/a>
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Social media\u00a0accounts\u00a0posted a photo showing former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with soldiers, claiming that he was found in the Syrian prison of Sednayah. The photo was accompanied by the following claim: \u201cSaddam Hussein found in Sednayah prison.\u201d Kashif verified the image via \u201cGoogle Images\u201d tool, and found that it was manipulated and that the claim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,131,73,760,56,759,758,746,141,693,685,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-9253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-facts-in-english","8":"tag-claim","9":"tag-fact","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-iraqi-president","12":"tag-kashif","13":"tag-saddam","14":"tag-saddam-hussein","15":"tag-sednayah-prison","16":"tag-syria","17":"tag-syrian-factions","18":"tag-syrian-opposition","19":"tag-verified"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9256,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions\/9256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}