Illiterate Saudi woman to be executed for being a witch

[Straw Man]

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/7244579.stm

Pleas for condemned Saudi 'witch'
By Heba Saleh
BBC News 

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.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/7244579.stm

Published: 2008/02/14 12:17:16 GMT

© BBC MMVIII

[Dos Equis]

Good grief.  Why would anyone want to live in that country?  Not counting the royal family. . . .

[headhuntersix]

Wonderful..we're going to charge with a crime..u can't be at the trial..nor havea lawyer..and then we're going to kill u.  Remind why these people have oil.

[youandme]

Good grief.  Why would anyone want to live in that country?  Not counting the royal family. . . .

BB, what you don't plan on visiting Duabi for a family vacation?

[War-Horse]

BB, what you don't plan on visiting Duabi for a family vacation?

Yes. Bring some assless leather chaps for a good time..

[Camel Jockey]

Look at this way.. Atleast now there will be one less Saudi.

[youandme]

Yes. Bring some assless leather chaps for a good time..

Haha yeah for a ritual stoning.


Come to Dubai.

[Straw Man]

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.
jesus - what a fucking nightmare it must to live in that country - especially if you're a witch

[Bindare_Dundat]

Poor woman, fucked up

[JasonH]

BB, what you don't plan on visiting Duabi for a family vacation?

Dubai is part of the United Arab Emirates, not Saudi Arabia.

Hope this helps.

[Camel Jockey]

KEEP THE PIMP HAND STRONG!

[War-Horse]

KEEP THE PIMP HAND STRONG!

If i ever saw that, He'd be sucking the barrel of a shotgun in seconds.











































The real problem is the women would turn on me.....how screwed up is that.

[Camel Jockey]

Warhorse, maybe not.

Makes me feel sick at times until I realize that not much can be done.

[War-Horse]

Warhorse, maybe not.

Makes me feel sick at times until I realize that not much can be done.

Yeah.  If people dont want to help themselves, you cant help them.  Any one of those women could figure out a way to get a bus ticket somehow, even if it took months..   Like the ghettos in the US.....no ones stuck there.

[Bindare_Dundat]

Yeah.  If people dont want to help themselves, you cant help them.  Any one of those women could figure out a way to get a bus ticket somehow, even if it took months..   Like the ghettos in the US.....no ones stuck there.

They are bound there through their minds. It's conditioning from the time they are conscience of the world around them.

[Camel Jockey]

They are bound there through their minds. It's conditioning from the time they are conscience of the world around them.

Yeah, that's certainly true. And even if they open their minds they have some old geezer husband, father or durka brother to hold them back. 

[Dos Equis]

BB, what you don't plan on visiting Duabi for a family vacation?

Nah.  Don't plan on visting Saudi Arabia either.   

[youandme]

Dubai is part of the United Arab Emirates, not Saudi Arabia.

Hope this helps.

Actually it did not.

Sharia Law is practiced in Dubai.

Hope that helped   


Camel damn, where in the hell did you pull that photo from, shetz