Call to halt woman's execution for witchcraft

A leading international human rights group appealed to Saudi King Abdullah today to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement that the kingdom’s religious police which 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 basis in law”.