{"id":1470,"date":"2008-02-14T10:47:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T10:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/14\/woman-arrested-by-religious-po\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T10:47:23","slug":"woman-arrested-by-religious-po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/woman-arrested-by-religious-po\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Arrested By &#8220;Religious Police&#8221; To Be Executed As Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The woman or or representatives were not allowed to attend the trial.  Her conviction is based on a written confession to which her fingerprints are attached.  She is illiterate and could not read the confession.  There are indications that this &#8220;conviction&#8221; is actually a crime of retribution by a man who is impotent, and who blames his impotence on this woman.  A higher court has overturned the conviction, but other courts have intervened and re-sentenced her to death on the grounds that it is in the public interest that she be killed, presumably, beheaded, which is the usual way in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>International agencies are asking The King to intervene.<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7244579.stm\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman or or representatives were not allowed to attend the trial. Her conviction is based on a written confession to which her fingerprints are attached. She is illiterate and could not read the confession. There are indications that this &#8220;conviction&#8221; is actually a crime of retribution by a man who is impotent, and who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/woman-arrested-by-religious-po\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woman Arrested By &#8220;Religious Police&#8221; To Be Executed As Witch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-nI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}