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OrgoneConclusion
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Witch to be executed in Saudi Arabia
#8023168 - 02/14/08 04:39 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Pleas for condemned Saudi 'witch' By Heba Saleh BBC News
Many Saudi executions are beheadings by the sword in public places. 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.
'Undefined' crime
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.
Repeat after me.
There is no danger in unsubstantiated belief.
There is no danger in unsubstantiated belief.
There is no danger in unsubstantiated belief.
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Sophistic Radiance
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Who was the dead guy what said that?
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OrgoneConclusion
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The heavy-set guy in the yellow shirt lying face down in the right center of the photo.
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Another witch bites the dust. Hell, yeah, get rid of those witches. They make crops fail and milk go sour among other things.
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If she was a witch she would have not been caught, would not have signed a confession, and would be literate, Q.E.D. she is not a witch.
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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: Witch to be executed in Saudi Arabia [Re: falcon]
#8024085 - 02/14/08 07:25 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Shocking that religious dogma and logic do not go hand-in-hand.
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This doesn't prove that a person isn't gifted. It proves that women have no rights in Saudi Arabia.
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said: Pleas for condemned Saudi 'witch' By Heba Saleh BBC News
Many Saudi executions are beheadings by the sword in public places. 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.
'Undefined' crime
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.
Repeat after me.
There is no danger in unsubstantiated belief.
There is no danger in unsubstantiated belief.
There is no danger in unsubstantiated belief.
Those people suck. I wish they would all fall off the earth.
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