Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Saudi's prepare to execute a woman for witchcraft

[housewolf]

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the kingdom's religious police who arrested and interrogated Fawza Falih, and 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."

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In Falih's case, the judges relied on a coerced confession and on the statements of witnesses who said she had "bewitched" them to convict her in April 2006, according to the group.

Falih later retracted her confession in court, claiming it was extracted under duress, and said that as an illiterate woman, she did not understand the document she was forced to fingerprint.

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more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/14/saudis-to-execute-a-woman_n_86642.html



:grr: :nuke:

[leftofthedial]

1. we do that too

it's called the "Democratic Primaries"

[housewolf]

3. Excuse me???????

Are you just smart-mouthing or are you seriously equating our primary system to a judicial system where people can be executed based on hearsay, no real evidence and whims of judges?

[leftofthedial]

4. Am I a wise ass?

sometimes all you can do is laugh. my outrage synapses are all worn out.

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Let the witch go. Down with the House of Saud!

[donkeyotay]

5. What did she do to them? How did they know they were bewitched?

In Falih's case, the judges relied on a coerced confession and on the statements of witnesses who said she had "bewitched" them to convict her in April 2006, according to the group.

on edit, here's more info in the letter from Human Rights Watch to His Highness:

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/02/13/saudia18046.htm

[Critters2]

6. Cows didn't give milk.

That's a sure sign.

God, what century is this?!!

[donkeyotay]

7. That's a sure sign. But the bull is still giving oil, so we will pretend not to see. nt