Gulf | Saudi Arabia
Witchcraft charges 'absurd'
A US-based human rights group appealed to Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:30 February 15, 2008
Beirut: A US-based human rights group appealed to Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft.
The Human Rights Watch said the religious police who arrested 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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