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Saudis Urged to Reverse Death Sentence on ?Witchcraft'

By "Persian Cowboy"

A human-rights organization says the Saudi authorities are arbitrarily executing people for witchcraft.Saudi Arabia is being urged by Human Rights Watch to stop meting out the death penalty for alleged witchcraft.Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling on Riyadh to cease applying capital punishment, to codify its criminal laws and update the criminal procedure law.?Saudi judges have harshly punished confessed ?witches? for what at worst appears to be fraud, but may well be harmless acts,? the rights group said. ?Saudi judges should not have the power to end lives of persons at all, let alone those who have not physically harmed others.??There is no legal interpretation of these terms, and that?s part of the problem,? Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch told The Media Line...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on November 25, 2009 (boomark / email).