<P> Among the people executed in Saudi for magic and sorcery (and often other charges) are Egyptian pharmacist Mustafa Ibrahim (beheaded in 2007 in Riyadh), Muree bin Ali bin Issa al - Asiri, (found in possession of talismans, and executed in Najran province in June 2012), Amina bin Salem Nasser, (executed in December 2011 in Jawf), and Abdul Hamid Bin Hussain Bin Moustafa al - Fakki (a Sudanese migrant worker executed in a car park in Medina on September 20, 2011). Ali Hussain Sibat, a Lebanese host of a popular fortune - telling TV program was arrested while in Saudi in May 2008 on Umrah and sentenced to death but finally released sometime in 2011 or 2012 . </P> <P> Many convicted of magic receive lesser punishments of lashes and / or prison . In 2011, the "Anti-Witchcraft Unit" processed over 586 cases of magical crime . In 2012 there were 215 witchcraft arrests made . The majority of these offenders are foreign domestic workers from Africa and Indonesia . Foreign domestic workers who bring unfamiliar traditional religious or folk customs are a disproportionately affected by the anti-witchcraft campaign according to Human Rights Watch researchers Adam Coogle and Cristoph Wilcke . Saudis assume folk practices are "some kind of sorcery or witchcraft" and widespread belief in witchcraft means it can be invoked as a defense in Sharia courts against workers complaining of mistreatment by Saudi employers . Humans Rights Watch believes that the conviction of a Syrian national, ` Abd al - Karim Mara'I al - Naqshabandi--executed in 1996 for undertaking ` the practice of works of magic and spells and possession of a collection of polytheistic and superstitious books `--was actually resulted from a dispute with his employer Prince Salman bin Sa'ud bin ` Abd al ` Aziz, a nephew of King Fahd . </P> <P> Speech, the press and other forms of communicative media, including television and radio broadcasting and Internet reception, are actively censored by the government to prevent political dissent and anything deemed, by the government, to be offensive to the Wahhabi culture or Islamic morality . </P> <P> In 2008, a prominent Saudi blogger and reformist Fouad al - Farhan was jailed for posting comments online that were critical of Saudi business, religious and media figures, signifying a move by the government to step up its censorship polices of the Internet within its borders . He was released on April 26, 2008 . </P>

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