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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. [...]
When an appeal court decided she should not be executed, the law courts imposed the death sentence again, arguing that it would be in the public interest.