Two years ago, Ali Hussain Subat of Lebanon was imprisoned Saudi Arabia and sentenced to death with the conviction of sorcery. Mr. Sibat appeared in a Lebanese TV show called “The Hidden,” where he earned $700 a month to answer callers’ questions, offer advices, cast spells or recite incantation. In 2008, he travelled to Saudi to perform a minor pilgrimage then was arrested by a technically non-arresting-authority but tremendously-powered religious police of the conservative kingdom. He then was jailed after agreeing to give a woman a potion so that her husband would divorce his second wife. Mr. Sibat confessed and recently, was told to be escorted several times to a public square for his beheading. No matter the fact that the execution for the father of four children is being postponed because of the outcry from international human rights groups and Lebanese government, this case has spoken up not only the common belief in magic and sorcery “but also a legal system that critics say operates in secret and functions with little oversight, due process or even written laws.” While fraud is not punishable to death, Mr. Sihat’s confession which is unable to prove, especially, when that person is in prison, actually is in this country. Despite the unclear outrage after all, looking at his despaired wife and children, we, if not most of the people in Saudi Arabia, also hear this: “Two years of torture. They are killing an innocent man, and they are slowly killing a whole family.”
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