Thread: Saudi Barbaria: convicted witch to be put to death

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7244579.stm

Human Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.

In a letter to King Abdullah, the rights group described the trial and
conviction of Fawza Falih as a miscarriage of justice.

The illiterate woman was detained by religious police in 2005 and allegedly beaten and forced to fingerprint a confession that she could not read.

Among her accusers was a man who alleged she made him impotent.

Human Rights Watch said that Ms Falih had exhausted all her chances of
appealing against her death sentence and she could only now be saved if King Abdullah intervened.

The US-based group is asking the Saudi ruler to void Ms Falih's conviction
and to bring charges against the religious police who detained her and are
alleged to have mistreated her.

Its letter to King Abdullah says the woman was tried for the undefined crime of witchcraft and that her conviction was on the basis of the written
statements of witnesses who said that she had bewitched them.

Human Rights Watch says the trial failed to meet the safeguards in the Saudi justice system.

The confession which the defendant was forced to fingerprint was not even read out to her, the group says.

Also Ms Falih and her representatives were not allowed to attend most of the hearings.

When an appeal court decided she should not be executed, the law courts
imposed the death sentence again, arguing that it would be in the public
interest.

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Yes, the article says "witchcraft" and no, it is NOT a joke. Islam the religion of hatred, intolerance and insanity.

Witchcraft??? Didn't this, like, die out back in the 1600s???

Originally Posted by americangirl

Witchcraft??? Didn't this, like, die out back in the 1600s???

Islam, the only religion bringing the 7th century back to the 21st. The "trial" itself sounds like nothing but a sham.