Are Saudi Arabia’s treacherous factional domestic politics behind the ongoing legal battle over its decision to execute a former Lebanese television psychic convicted of sorcery?
Ali Hossein Sabat, convicted of witchcraft and sentenced to death by beheading in Saudi Arabia, received a temporary stay of execution Thursday, just one day before his sentence was to be carried out. It was the latest development in Sabat’s two-year ordeal.
Saudi Arabia is among the strictest countries in such legal matters, and any practices that could be considered “magic” are punishable by death.