{"id":46,"date":"2010-04-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/tv-sorcerer-may-be-executed-in-saudi-arabia-tomorrow.html"},"modified":"2010-04-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T12:00:00","slug":"tv-sorcerer-may-be-executed-in-saudi-arabia-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/tv-sorcerer-may-be-executed-in-saudi-arabia-tomorrow.html","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: TV &#8216;Magician&#8217; May Be Executed in Saudi Arabia Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lawyer for Ali Hussain Sibat, a fortune-teller on a Lebanese TV show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hQ_jb3NeJqD5cjGvkNxW5Jlje9AwD9EQBAQO0\">says Saudi Arabia plans to behead her client <\/a>tomorrow. (<strong>This is not an April Fools&#8217; Day joke<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>Sibat, 49,&nbsp;is&nbsp;Lebanese citizen, but was <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/03\/arrested-by-saudi-religious-police-lebanese-magician-gets-death-penalty.html\">arrested by Saudi religious police <\/a>who recognized him from his show while he was&nbsp;on a Muslim pilgrimage&nbsp;to Medina two years ago. He was accused of sorcery and black magic,&nbsp;convicted of witchcraft last fall and sentenced to death. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/meast\/03\/31\/saudi.arabia.sorcery\/index.html?hpt=T2\">CNN&nbsp;is trying to confirm the news&nbsp;<\/a>with the Saudi Ministry of Justice. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/news_details.asp?NewsID=18687\">Amnesty International <\/a>and Human Rights&nbsp;Watch&nbsp;have been&nbsp;appealing to&nbsp;King Abdullah and his country&#8217;s government to stop the execution, and&nbsp;to halt&nbsp;&#8220;its increasing use of charges of &#8216;witchcraft,&#8217; crimes that are vaguely defined and arbitrarily used.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawyer for Ali Hussain Sibat, a fortune-teller on a Lebanese TV show, says Saudi Arabia plans to behead her client tomorrow. (This is not an April Fools&#8217; Day joke.) Sibat, 49,&nbsp;is&nbsp;Lebanese citizen, but was arrested by Saudi religious police who recognized him from his show while he was&nbsp;on a Muslim pilgrimage&nbsp;to Medina two years&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS: TV &#039;Magician&#039; May Be Executed in Saudi Arabia Tomorrow - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/tv-sorcerer-may-be-executed-in-saudi-arabia-tomorrow.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING NEWS: TV &#039;Magician&#039; May Be Executed in Saudi Arabia Tomorrow - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The lawyer for Ali Hussain Sibat, a fortune-teller on a Lebanese TV show, says Saudi Arabia plans to behead her client tomorrow. 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