why don't we bring our 'democracy' over there i wonder to myself?
Saudis to execute a woman for witchcraft
Rights Group: Saudis Should Halt Execution of a Woman for Witchcraft
DONNA ABU-NASR
A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the kingdom's religious police who arrested and interrogated 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."
Falih's case underscores shortcomings in Saudi Arabia's Islamic legal system in which rules of evidence are shaky, lawyers are not always present and sentences often depend on the whim of judges.
The most frequent victims are women, who already suffer severe restrictions on daily life in Saudi Arabia: They cannot drive, appear before a judge without a male representative, or travel abroad without a male guardian's permission..........
The Saudi court cited an instance in which a man allegedly became impotent after being bewitched by Falih, the rights group said. |
3 comments:
I think we invaded the wrong country.
Capitalism isn't opposed to Islamism, only its expansion.
rick, geeze, you're right you know. well figuratively at least.
renegade eye, i think capitalism isn't opposed to ANYTHING as long as it's money-making
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