Recent videos surfaced showing Shadi al-Waisi, the new Syrian Justice Minister, as a judge in 2015 issuing death sentences for two women accused of adultery and prostitution in Idlib, Syria. The videos sparked significant outcry on social media, with calls for al-Waisi’s dismissal due to perceived ties to extremism and terrorism. A verification process confirmed the authenticity of the recordings, indicating a mismatch between al-Waisi’s extremist ideology and the modern state Syria aims to establish.