Conviction Indigenous spiritual authority or imitation Mukono District, Uganda · 2008

Uganda: shrine operator and accomplices convicted of gang-raping a client seeking healing

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

traditional doctor and shrine operator

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The victim came to the shrine specifically for spiritual healing; the operator's ritual authority is what separated her from her husband and placed her under his control.

Spiritual healing or treatment
Other spiritual authority or belief

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2008-08-28 · conviction

High Court of Uganda (Uganda v Sheikh Abdu Said Nyanzi Masumbuko & Ors, Crim. Sess. Case No. 0458 of 2006, [2008] UGHC 22). A traditional doctor and shrine operator known as Sheikh Abdu Said Nyanzi Masumbuko and two accomplices were convicted after a woman who had come to his shrine with her husband seeking spiritual and healing services was drugged and gang-raped, then left in a swamp to stage her having wandered off — facts drawn from the High Court judgment.

Documented coercion mechanisms

spiritual-healing services sought by the victim and her husband
drugging at the shrine

Primary record

Sources

official court judgment trial judgment Uganda v Sheikh Abdu Said Nyanzi Masumbuko & Ors, Criminal Session Case No. 0458 of 2006, [2008] UGHC 22 (28 August 2008).: The High Court judgment recording the shrine setting, the drugging, and the convictions.

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