'A popular Lebanese TV personality who hosted a show where he predicted the future and gave callers advice is awaiting execution in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft, his lawyer said this week. Ali Hussain Sabat is the former host of a popular call-in show that aired on the Beirut-based satellite TV channel Sheherazade. On the show, he answered callers' questions about the future and dispatched general advice on life questions.
Under Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islam, that's considered sorcery -- a crime punishable by death. The Saudi religious police burst into Sabat's hotel room in the city of Medina in 2008 and arrested him while on a Muslim pilgrimage to the kingdom. A Saudi court convicted Sabat last year and sentenced him to death.' …Read more ...
