Need help locating petition against Saudi Arabia for death sentence of woman accused of witchcraft

[Breeze54]

She journalist who has been sentenced to death for googling "witchcraft" or accused of supporting witchcraft.
She was doing research? but has been convicted to death for supposedly going against the Koran? Islam?
I heard about this on NovaMRadio this morning on a talk show and I followed the link they gave but I can't
seem to find the petition even after searching for it.

Anyone else heard or know about this?

Here's the link they gave: http://ffrf.org/

I think they also said *forward slash/religion* but that didn't work either.

[Breeze54]

1. I found articles but not the petition... 'Saudis to Execute a Woman for Witchcraft'

Saudis to Execute a Woman for Witchcraft

DONNA ABU-NASR | February 14, 2008 06:49 AM EST |

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/14/saudis-to-execute-a-woman_n_86642.html

BEIRUT, Lebanon —

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 basis in law."

Falih's case underscores shortcomings in Saudi Arabia's Islamic legal system in which rules of evidence are shaky, lawyers are not always present and sentences often depend on the whim of judges.

The most frequent victims are women, who already suffer severe restrictions on daily life in Saudi Arabia: They cannot drive, appear before a judge without a male representative, or travel abroad without a male guardian's permission.

Witchcraft is considered an offense against Islam in the conservative kingdom.

In Falih's case, the judges relied on a coerced confession and on the statements of witnesses who said she had "bewitched" them to convict her in April 2006, according to the group.

Falih later retracted her confession in court, claiming it was extracted under duress, and said that as an illiterate woman, she did not understand the document she was forced to fingerprint.

"The fact that Saudi judges still conduct trials for unprovable crimes like 'witchcraft' underscores their inability to carry out objective criminal investigations," said Joe Stork, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.

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[Breeze54]

2. Searching Human Rights Watch and still looking for petition... argh!

Saudi Arabia: Halt Woman’s Execution for ‘Witchcraft’

Fawza Falih’s Case Reveals Deep Flaws in Saudi Justice System

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/02/14/saudia18051.htm

(New York, February 14, 2008) –

King Abdullah should halt the execution of Fawza Falih and void her conviction for “witchcraft,”
Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the Saudi king.

The 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 against
absurd charges that have no basis in law.


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