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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on April 01, 2010, 04:06:52 AM

Title: Lawyer: Beheading planned in Saudi sorcery case
Post by: bijou on April 01, 2010, 04:06:52 AM
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(CNN) -- A Lebanese man charged with sorcery and sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia is scheduled to be beheaded on Friday, the man's lawyer said Wednesday.

May El Khansa, the attorney for Ali Hussain Sibat, told CNN that she and Sibat's family were informed about the upcoming execution. She said she heard from a source in Saudi Arabia with knowledge of the case and the proceedings that Saudi authorities "will carry out the execution."

The Saudi Ministry of Justice could not immediately be reached for comment on the matter. ...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/03/31/saudi.arabia.sorcery/index.html