Saudi woman executed for ‘witchcraft and sorcery’
Tuesday December 13, 2011 Death Penalty, Human Rights Violations, Islam, RNB's Religion News Blog, Saudi Arabia
A Saudi woman has been executed for practising “witchcraft and sorcery”, the country’s interior ministry says.
Amnesty International says the charge of sorcery has often been used in Saudi Arabia to punish people, generally after unfair trials, for exercising their right to freedom of speech or religion.