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the poor guy who went to Umrah for his honeymoon.
Reporting on this case says Nazrul Islam went to Saudi Arabia for work in November 2022, not for a honeymoon Umrah trip, and his father says the woman executed with him was not his wife.
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This description does not match the reported facts of the case.
According to The Daily Star, Nazrul Islam's father said he borrowed money to send his son to Saudi Arabia for work, and Nazrul left on November 10, 2022 and worked as a cleaner there. The same report says Nazrul was detained about six months later and remained in detention for roughly three years and three months before the October 14, 2026 execution. That timeline is inconsistent with a recent "Umrah honeymoon" trip.
Separately, Jago News 24 reported that Nazrul's father denied that Sweety Akhtar was his son's wife, saying they were not married and that the family did not know her. That directly contradicts the claim that he was in Saudi Arabia on a honeymoon.
So while many social posts have described the pair as newlyweds on Umrah, the reporting tied to Nazrul's family points the other way: he had been a migrant worker in Saudi Arabia since 2022, and the family disputes that the woman executed with him was his wife.
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- Executed in Saudi Arabia: Grieving father seeks justice, return of son's body | The Daily Star
Nazrul, the eldest among four siblings, left for Saudi Arabia on November 10, 2022, and worked as a cleaner in the kingdom... Nazrul remained in detention for about three years and three months.
- Saudi executions: Nazrul’s father says Sweety was not his wife | Jago News 24
Nazrul’s father... denied the claim, saying they were not married and that the family did not know Sweety.
What they call "immoral behavior" is the man kissing the woman while they were posing for a photo...
The official Saudi statement did not say the act was a kiss for a photo, and the viral image used for that story has been identified as an unrelated 2024 photo of an Egyptian couple.
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This claim assigns a specific act to the case that the official record does not provide, and it appears to rely on a misidentified image.
The Daily Star, summarizing the Saudi Interior Ministry statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency, reported that Saudi authorities said the two Bangladeshis were convicted over an "immoral act" inside a mosque in Makkah, but that the official statement did not specify the precise nature of the act.
A separate fact-check by The Quint traced the viral photo often attached to this story and found it was not of the executed Bangladeshi pair at all. Their reverse-image search found the picture came from December 2024 and showed Egyptian influencer Gehad Elbana and her husband Ramzy Mahmoud at Masjid al-Haram. The same fact-check states that Saudi Arabia did not reveal the act itself.
Because the official statement does not say the act was a kiss, and the photo used as supposed proof is unrelated, it is inaccurate to present "kissing while posing for a photo" as the established reason for the case.
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- Saudi Arabia executes 2 Bangladeshis over 'immoral act' in Makkah mosque | The Daily Star
The official statement did not specify the precise nature of the act, identify the mosque or provide details about when the two Bangladeshis were arrested.
- Fact-Check: This Photo Doesn't Show Bangladeshi 'Couple' Who Were 'Beheaded' in Saudi Arabia | The Quint
The image shows Egyptian influencer Gehad Elbana and her husband Ramzy Mahmoud at the Masjid al-Haram in 2024... While Saudi Arabia executed two Bangladeshi nationals for 'indecent acts' at the holy site, it neither mentioned the nature of the act, nor did they specify the manner of execution.