MSP Natalie Don launches Holyrood bill to pardon people tortured and executed under Witchcraft Act 1563
Natalie Don, the SNP MSP launching the bill.The failure to serve posthumous justice to the thousands of people – mainly women – persecuted as witches in post-ReformationSpeaking before the launch of a Holyrood member’s bill on Thursday, the SNP MSP Natalie Don explained: “The only way we can move forward in terms of where we are with misogyny and prejudice in society is by fixing these injustices of our past.
“Specific kinds of women that were targeted, generally because they were a little bit different, they were poor, they were outcasts. We still see that in the modern day – although it’s maybe not the same characteristics – where women who do choose to be different or independent feel men’s anger.
The bill is launched amid a swell of grassroots groups researching local prosecutions and organising community memorials. The Renfrewshire Witchhunt group recently held a memorial on the last remains of the Gallows Green in Paisley, where seven women were executed on 10 June 1697.
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