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Friday, February 15, 2008

Pleas for condemned Saudi 'witch'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7244579.stm

[BBC News] 15 Feb 2008--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.

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