The ministry gave no further details of the charges which the woman faced. The woman was the second person to be executed for witchcraft in Saudi Arabia this year. A Sudanese man was executed in September.
The interior ministry stated that the verdict against Ms Nasser was upheld by Saudi Arabia's highest courts, but it did not give specific details of the charges. A member of the religious police said that she was in her 60s and had tricked people into giving her money, claiming that she could cure their illnesses. She was arrested in April 2009.
But the human rights group Amnesty International, which has campaigned for Saudis previously sentenced to death on sorcery charges, said it had never heard of her case until now. Amnesty says that Saudi Arabia does not actually define sorcery as a capital offence. However, some of its conservative clerics have urged the strongest possible punishments against fortune-tellers and faith healers as a threat to Islam.
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Their methods are all wrong. Everyone knows you need to see if they weigh the same as a duck.
Not funny GMT-8. A person was killed.
Also, strict Islamists are about 200 years (or more) behind the modern world. This is like the Salem witch trials here in the US. Sad but true.
@Anonymous
Salem Witch Trials were 319 years ago.
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