Thursday, February 14, 2008

Saudi Arabia to Behead Woman for Witchcraft

DAILY MAIL: The Saudi Arabian king today faced international outcry over the planned beheading of a woman accused of being a witch.

Fawza Falih turned two men impotent, a court heard in the ultra-religious state where “performing supernatural occurrences” is considered an offence against Islam.

Judges were also told she cast a spell to bring about the return of a divorced man's ex-wife.

But international charity Human Rights Watch said King Abdullah's religious police had forced a confession out of her.

And they claim the judges who tried her in the northern town of Quraiyat never gave her the opportunity to prove her innocence in the face of "absurd charges that have no basis in law." International fury over Saudi Arabia's plans to behead woman accused of being a witch >>>

BBC:
Pleas for condemned Saudi 'witch' By Heba Saleh

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