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Sri Lankan held for `witchcraft` in Saudi Arabia
Thursday, 19 April 2012 - 10:07 PM SL Time
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A Sri Lankan woman has been arrested on suspicion of casting a spell on a 13-year-old girl during a Saudi family`s shopping trip, a police spokesman said on Wednesday, and may face death in a country where convicted sorcerers are beheaded.
The spokesman, Mesfir al-Juayed, confirmed to Reuters by phone that details of the woman`s arrest published in local media were correct.
The daily Okaz reported that a Saudi man had complained his daughter had `suddenly started acting in an abnormal way, and that happened after she came close to the Sri Lankan woman` in a large shopping mall in the port city of Jeddah.
`He reported her to the security forces, asking for her arrest and the specialised units dealt with the situation swiftly and succeeded in arresting her,` Okaz reported on Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, is an absolute monarchy that has no written criminal code and where court rulings are based on judges` interpretation of Islamic Sharia law.
`The punishment is always beheading for anyone found guilty of witchcraft,` a Saudi lawyer and human rights activist, Waleed Abu al-Khair, told Reuters by phone.
In December, Amnesty International condemned the beheading of a woman in Saudi Arabia convicted on charges of `sorcery and witchcraft,` saying it underlined the urgent need to end executions in the kingdom.
Amnesty said the execution was the second of its kind last year. A Sudanese national was beheaded in the Saudi city of Medina in September after being convicted on sorcery charges, according to the London-based group.
(Reporting by Asma Alsharif Editing by Angus McDowall and Michael Roddy)
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AnuD
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 19 Apr 2012 15:34:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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The daily Okaz reported that a Saudi man had complained his daughter had 'suddenly started acting in an abnormal way, and that happened after she came close to the Sri Lankan woman' in a large shopping mall in the port city of Jeddah.
Stupid Saudi Arabians. |
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19 Apr 2012 16:15:26 GMT Report for Abuse
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The daily Okaz reported that a Saudi man had complained his daughter had 'suddenly started acting in an abnormal way, and that happened after she came close to the Sri Lankan woman' in a large shopping mall in the port city of Jeddah.
wow, so she is going to lose her head because she stood next to the child? |
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 19 Apr 2012 16:42:08 GMT Report for Abuse
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Stupid Saudi Arabians.
Sri Lanka should ban its citizens going to SA. Citizens of small countries, specially unskilled labor are no better than slaves. Time the state took responsibility for the well being of its citizens.
The daily Okaz reported that a Saudi man had complained his daughter had 'suddenly started acting in an abnormal way, and that happened after she came close to the Sri Lankan woman' in a large shopping mall in the port city of Jeddah.
What is abnormal? Has the child seen a doctor?
I did miss the age of the kid: so she is a teenager, here is news for the father teenagers are never normal.
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19 Apr 2012 16:46:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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A Sri Lankan woman has been arrested on suspicion of casting a spell on a 13-year-old girl during a Saudi family's shopping trip, a police spokesman said on Wednesday, and may face death in a country where convicted sorcerers are beheaded.
oh man poor woman... this 13 year old kid has a medical condition... what witchcraft?? people who came into a conclusion of witchcraft needs to get their heads checked or should be kicked back to the 13th century....lets hope they wont kill her for this... next time anyone go to saudi dont look at anyone dont talk to anyone.. not even to get directions....
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19 Apr 2012 17:09:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sri Lanka should ban its citizens going to SA. Citizens of small countries, specially unskilled labor are no better than slaves.
Are you serious ? then who is going to support the 120 ministers luxury life in the regime of a small country.
Now the regime has got 120 ministers in the government, to do the above mentioned the regime needs 225 ministers in the government. :-)))
Edited By - Lumbani - 19 Apr 2012 17:10:22 GMT |
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19 Apr 2012 19:07:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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The daily Okaz reported that a Saudi man had complained his daughter had 'suddenly started acting in an abnormal way
check her virginity...fking idiots! |
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19 Apr 2012 20:42:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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Van Ride !
Is gajan99's wife in Saudi Arabia?
Astro's Vangediya ?
Deborak's hikz hikz Padikkama...
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19 Apr 2012 20:43:28 GMT Report for Abuse
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What witchcraft??
Bishop Likens Obama to Hitler, Stalin
what west gave to the world.
Edited By - Damed - 19 Apr 2012 20:44:41 GMT |
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