Human rights group pleads for condemned Saudi 'witch'
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'Beaten, denied a fair trial, sentenced to death' Campaigning group Human Rights Watch has petitioned King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to halt the execution by beheading of a "witch" who in 2006 was convicted of "witchcraft, recourse to jinn [supernatural beings], and slaughter of animals".â¦
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A leading human rights group has issued a global call to action to challenge violence against women and the failure of governments to prevent it.
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RIYADH: As the UN&#39;s Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women approaches, Saudi women are calling for urgent state policies to protect victims of domestic violence in the conservative Muslim kingdom.
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MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia's top cleric told 2 million hajj pilgrims yesterday that some of Islam's own sons had been "lured by the devil" to conduct violent attacks on the kingdom and charged that the non-Muslim world was conspiring against the people of the faith.
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Human rights group calls on Iranian government to stop the execution of a man and a woman for adultery by stoning.
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Saudi Arabian women mount a challenge to the ban on female drivers in a rare sign of public opposition to the kingdom's ultra-conservative social mores.
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Six human rights groups urged the U.S. government on Thursday to name and explain the whereabouts of 39 people they said were believed to have been held in U.S. custody and "disappeared."
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A human rights group urges the UN to take recruiters of child soldiers to the International Criminal Court.
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An Islamic civil rights group Wednesday called on President Bush to rescind the appointment of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum board member who criticized an incoming congressman, Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress.
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Science & environment: Demand for palm oil is leading to human rights abuses in Indonesia, environmental groups claim
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Three members of Saudi Arabia's religious police will stand trial this week for their involvement in the death of a man in their custody, an unprecedented action against the powerful enforcers of the country's strict moral code.
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Saudi Arabia is using a form of torture - flogging - to silence dissent in the kingdom, a human rights group says.
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BOGOTA -- Queen Noor of Jordan is urging Muslim moderates to speak out against the ''ranting&quot; of extremists who use Islam to justify beheadings and suicide bombings against the United States and Westerners.
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Amnesty condemns legal 'scandal' Amnesty International has condemned Saudia Arabia's decision to execute a 19-year-old Sri Lankan maid accused of murdering a baby in her care - despite the fact she was 17 at the time of the alleged offence and has denied confessing to the crime.â¦
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A human rights group says Egypt has tortured HIV-positive men before they are subjected to unfair trials.
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Saudi pro-reform activists say they are seeking signatures online to back their campaign for free elections.
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A major Jewish religious leader urged North America's Muslims on Friday to keep condemning violence committed in the name of Islam until the message sinks in.