AMNESTY URGES SAUDI KING TO COMMUTE DEATH PENALTY

Amnesty International issued an urgent request to the Saudi Arabian monarch to commute the death sentences of Lebanese television psychic Ali Hussain Sibat and another man, both convicted for practicing black magic in the desert kingdom. Abdul Hamid Bin Hussain Bin Moustafa Al-Fakki, a Sudanese national, was arrested in 2005 for taking money in return for casting a spell to compel a man to leave his second wife.