1.0 link 86642 <![CDATA[Saudis to Execute a Woman for Witchcraft]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/14/saudis-to-execute-a-woman_n_86642.html BEIRUT, Lebanon &mdash; 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...

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