And You Thought *Our* Fundamentalists Were Bad.........

[Caius Marcius]

>From the Human Rights Watch 2001 World Report, regarding the nation 
of Saudi Arabia. The exclamation marks were added by me

http://www.hrw.org/wr2k1/mideast/saudi.html


"Capital punishment was applied for crimes including murder, rape, 
armed robbery, drug smuggling, sodomy, and sorcery  (!!!). In most 
cases, the condemned were decapitated in public squares after being 
blindfolded, handcuffed, shackled at the ankles, and tranquilized. By 
late September 2000, at least 104 Saudis and foreigners had been 
beheaded, exceeding in nine months the total of 103 that Amnesty 
International recorded in 1999."

Wonder what that sorcery charge was about? Maybe someone was caught 
trying to smuggle in a copy of Prisoner of Azkaban.

  - CMC