Woman Faces Beheading For Witchcraft in Saudi Arabia

Fawza Falih, an illiterate Saudi Arabian woman has been tried and convicted of witchcraft, and this in the 21st century. She was allegedly detained by the religious police, beaten and forced to finger print a confession that she could not read. Amongst her accusers is a man who said that she made him impotent. She can only be saved now if King Abdullah intervenes, otherwise her execution will be beheading in a public place by sword. The confession was not read out to her and when an appeal court decided that 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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