Just when we all thought witchcraft trials were a thing better left to the history books, Those religious fanatics in the Middle East bring the macabre witch hunts into the modern age…Off with her head I guess since that is the preferred way off execution. Burning at the stake is a bit outdated in 2008.

beheading execution in Saudi ArabiaHuman Rights Watch has appealed to Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.

In a letter to King Abdullah, the rights group described the trial and conviction of Fawza Falih as a miscarriage of justice.

The illiterate woman was detained by religious police in 2005 and allegedly beaten and forced to fingerprint a confession that she could not read.

Among her accusers was a man who alleged she made him impotent.

Human Rights Watch said that Ms Falih had exhausted all her chances of appealing against her death sentence and she could only now be saved if King Abdullah intervened.

‘Undefined’ crime

Read the rest of the story fro BBC news and the witchcraft trial in the middle east