Tag: Execution

A Saudi woman was beheaded after being convicted of practicing “witchcraft and sorcery,” according to the Saudi Interior Ministry, at least the second such execution for sorcery this year.

In Pakistan’s huge port city of Karachi, religious scholars united to forbid mourning. They urged pious Muslims not to offer funeral prayers for the outspoken governor of the Punhjab, Salmaan Taseer, who had most recently made headlines by championing the rights of Aasia Bibi, a Christian convert facing execution because of the country’s blasphemy laws.

Strikes paralyzed several cities in Pakistan, as demonstrators protested against a proposal to moderate the blasphemy law, which currently carries a mandatory death sentence for anyone who insults Islam, and which has been criticized for being used to persecute religious minorities.

North Korea is stepping up executions of Christians with some killings taking place in public, rights groups say.

An Islamist militia has executed a Somali politician who they accused of betraying his religion by working with non-Muslim Ethiopian forces.