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Interfaith: Home / Blog article: Saudi Witch Appeal
February 19, 2008Saudi Witch Appeal
by Rachael Grant
A case of a woman who is due to be executed in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of witchcraft, has been questioned by Human Rights Watch who plea for a halt to the execution.
The group wrote a letter to King Abdullah, calling the case of Fawza Falih, the supposed witch, a miscarriage of justice. They pleaded that she could only be saved if he intervened, because all other avenues had already been exhausted. The group is asking for the conviction to be made void, and for charges to be made against the religious police who had detained her.
The letter went on to say that the safe guards in place in the Saudi justice system had not been met in this particular case.
Fawza Falih, who is illiterate, was taken into custody in 2005. She was allegedly beaten, and was forced to ’sign’ her fingerprints to a confession that she was unable to read, after one of her accusers claimed she made him impotent.
Initially an appeal court decided that Ms Falih should not be executed but law courts repeated the death sentence, citing public interest as the reason.
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