By Heba Saleh
BBC News
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Human Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.
In a letter to King Abdullah, the rights group described the trial and conviction of Fawza Falih as a miscarriage of justice.
The illiterate woman was detained by religious police in 2005 and allegedly beaten and forced to fingerprint a confession that she could not read.
Among her accusers was a man who alleged she made him impotent.
Recall, the much-ridiculed & much-maligned Taliban institution, the "Committees for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice", was modeled on the Saudi institution of the same name.
These are the "religious police" that arrested & convicted the "witch".
But... the Saudis are W's best buds.
W - he who proclaimed in his Second Inaugural,
"So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world."I suppose he's a bit weak on geography, and he's not aware that Saudi Arabia is a nation in our world.
At any rate, he seems in none-too-great a hurry to confront the Saudi monarchy regarding democracy, tyranny, and human rights.
Stop the madness!
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