URGENT ACTION NEEDED to Halt A Woman's Execution for 'Witchcraft'
PRESS RELEASE
URGENT ACTION NEEDED to Halt A Woman's Execution for 'Witchcraft'
Please urge Congress to call for the immediate pardon and release of Fawza Falih, a Saudi Arabian woman who has been sentenced to death by beheading for the alleged crimes of "witchcraft." As Human Rights Watch has declared, the conviction of Fawza Falih is a travesty 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.
Human Rights Watch said that Ms. Falih had exhausted all her chances of appealing against her death sentence and she could only now be saved if King Abdullah intervened.
Further information on the case is available at:
CNN Reports Saudi Witch Case
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/02/15/verjee.saudi.witchcraft.cnn
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Saudi Arabia: Fawza Falih's Case Reveals Deep Flaws in Saudi Justice System
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/02/14/saudia18051.htm
To read the letter from Human Rights Watch to King Abdullah:
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/02/13/saudia18046.htm
BBC News Pleas for condemned Saudi "witch" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7244579.stm
Please contact your congressional representatives immediately on this issue. Ask them to contact the State Department immediately and send a message from the US government on her behalf, to spare her life and free her from jail.
Follow this link to find your representative by entering your Zip Code
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
Thanks to M. Macha Nightmare for alerting.
URGENT ACTION NEEDED to Halt A Woman's Execution for 'Witchcraft'
Please urge Congress to call for the immediate pardon and release of Fawza Falih, a Saudi Arabian woman who has been sentenced to death by beheading for the alleged crimes of "witchcraft." As Human Rights Watch has declared, the conviction of Fawza Falih is a travesty 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.
Human Rights Watch said that Ms. Falih had exhausted all her chances of appealing against her death sentence and she could only now be saved if King Abdullah intervened.
Further information on the case is available at:
CNN Reports Saudi Witch Case
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/02/15/verjee.saudi.witchcraft.cnn
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Saudi Arabia: Fawza Falih's Case Reveals Deep Flaws in Saudi Justice System
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/02/14/saudia18051.htm
To read the letter from Human Rights Watch to King Abdullah:
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/02/13/saudia18046.htm
BBC News Pleas for condemned Saudi "witch" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7244579.stm
Please contact your congressional representatives immediately on this issue. Ask them to contact the State Department immediately and send a message from the US government on her behalf, to spare her life and free her from jail.
Follow this link to find your representative by entering your Zip Code
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
Thanks to M. Macha Nightmare for alerting.