Saudi Arabia has marched boldly in to the year 1692 and is adopting Salem Massachusetts of that time as a reasonable model. Pleas for condemned Saudi ‘witch’

Human Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.

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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.

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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.

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