The lawyer of a Lebanese man condemned to death for witchcraft said today Saudi Arabia would not go ahead with the beheading.
Attorney May al-Khansa said she was told by Lebanon's justice minister that Ali Sibat would not be executedtoday.
She said it was still unclear whether the beheading had been waived or only postponed.
Al-Khansa and Sibat's wife have both appealed to the Saudi king for Sibat's release.
Sibat made psychic predictions on an Arab satellite TV channel from his home in Beirut.
He was arrested by the Saudi religious police during his pilgrimage to the holy city of Medina in May 2008 and sentenced to death last November for witchcraft.
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