By Lee Ha-na
The latest beheading of a Saudi Arabian woman brings the county’s execution toll to 76, according to the Daily Mail, for people who practiced ‘sorcery.’ This number includes at least five other women and 11 foreign nationals.
The woman, Amina bint Abdul Halim bin Salem Nasser , was executed on Monday in Jawf, in the northern province of Saudi Arabia, after being ruled guilty of fraud, according to a local newspaper.
The woman in her 60s was indicted for having cheated that she could cure patients in exchange for money. She was arrested in April 2009
Saudi Arabian law does not specifically define ‘sorcery,’ but any person who commits an act “un-Islamic” could be punished. There are officials who are pushing to have severe punishments for fortune telling and similar occupations.
Amnesty International, a non-governmental human rights organization, has strongly called for the Middle East country to scrap the beheading of convicts, saying, it’s “shocking.”
The body believes that hundreds of people are waiting to meet similar fates on drug-related charges. Last year, Saudi Arabia was one of the nations that voted against a U.N. General Assembly resolution for an international moratorium on executions.