Shocking Photo of A Man Laughing Before Hanging Sentence After Preaching the Gospel in Syria, Is It True?

JAKARTA - A man laughing at the gallows ahead of the death penalty in Syria has gone viral on social media, Facebook. The photo of the man was shared by the @Chaplain Barefoot account some time ago.

In the narrative, the account wrote that the man was sentenced to death for preaching the gospel in Syria. Instead of being sad, the man smiled happily.

“He was sentenced to death in Syria for preaching the Gospel and is laughing to the gallows because he knows his time to meet Christ is coming. Meanwhile, many of us have a gossip or a small difference to give up everything… Let's meditate on this church!," wrote the account @Chaplain Barefoot as reported by turnbackhoax, Monday, October 18.

When translated, "He was sentenced to death in Syria for preaching the gospel and laughing at the gallows because he knew his time to meet Christ was coming. Meanwhile, many of us have gossip or minor differences to give up everything… Let's meditate in this church!”

Is this fact true? Let's check!

According to APF Fact Check, the image is of an Iranian man moments before he was executed in 2007 for killing a local judge.

Furthermore, an image search was also carried out via Yandex and showed that the man in the photo is Majid Kavousifar who appeared in the news about the public hanging, which took place in Tehran on August 2, 2007.

According to an AFP report, cited by turnbackhoax, Kavousifar and family members of Hossein Kavousifer were hanged for killing Hassan Moghaddas, an Iranian top judge, in 2005.

"A similar image was also used as a hoax in 2019, images of the same person circulated in Indonesia along with claims that he was an Algerian hacker who was executed for stealing money from an Israeli bank," wrote turnbackhoax.

"Thus, the claim of a picture of a man getting the death penalty after preaching the Bible in Syria is a hoax with misleading content categories," it said.