Saudi Woman Beheaded for ‘Witchcraft’

December 14, 2011

International

Saudi Woman Beheaded for ‘Witchcraft’

 

Muslim women make their way to throw cast stones at a pillar in a ritual called “Jamarat,” in Mina near the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 6, 2011. (Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)

By RANDY KREIDER | ABC News

A Saudi woman was beheaded after being convicted of practicing “witchcraft and sorcery,” according to the Saudi Interior Ministry, at least the second such execution for sorcery this year.

The woman, Amina bint Abdulhalim Nassar, was executed in the northern Saudi province of al-Jawf on Monday.

A source close to the Saudi religious police told Arab newspaper al Hayat that authorities who searched Nassar’s home found a book about witchcraft, 35 veils and glass bottles full of “an unknown liquid used for sorcery” among her possessions. According to reports, authorities said Nassar claimed to be a healer and would sell a veil and three bottles for 1500 riyals, or about $400.

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