Case file · Witch trials
Ali Sibat, the TV psychic sentenced to death
Lebanese TV fortune-teller Ali Sibat was arrested by Saudi religious police in Medina in May 2008 while on pilgrimage and sentenced to death in 2009 for sorcery over his broadcasts from Beirut.
2008 CE · 24.47, 39.61 · status: official
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International protests followed; the sentence was not carried out, and he was reportedly released in 2011.