THE latest episode of BBC Alba’s award-winning current affairs programme, Eorpa, explores historical witchcraft persecution and proposed bill to pardon convictions.
Reporter Eileen Macdonald speaks to women’s rights activists, local groups memorialising accused witches and campaigners who support MSP Natalie Don’s proposed Witchcraft Convictions (Pardons) (Scotland) Bill in the programme, shown for the first time last night.
On International Women’s Day 2022, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon issued a formal apology to those people – around 85% of them women – who were tortured and executed under the Witchcraft Act 1563.
