Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Ruqya, shrine, and healing contexts Blida, Algeria · 2008

'Raqi Hamdan': three-year sentence after fatal violence during claimed ruqya

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

purported raqi and spiritual healer

Organization

No organization assigned

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The cited record identifies claimed spirit-possession diagnosis, violent ruqya, authority over a medically vulnerable person, and insistence that the victim's objections came from a jinn as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is purported raqi and spiritual healer.

Spiritual healing or treatment
Curse or witchcraft threat
Exorcism or deliverance

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2008-05-18 · criminal judgment and sentence

Criminal Court of the Blida Judicial Council, Algeria. The court convicted the practitioner known as Raqi Hamdan of violence causing death and imposed three years' imprisonment.

Documented coercion mechanisms

claimed spirit-possession diagnosis
violent ruqya
authority over a medically vulnerable person
insistence that the victim's objections came from a jinn

Cited record

Sources

local court reporting judgment report Ennahar, 'Three years in prison for a raqi who caused a woman's death in Blida' (May 19, 2008; Arabic).: Detailed courtroom reporting records the conviction and sentence, medical evidence of fatal chest trauma, witness testimony and the defendant's claim that he was responding to a spirit rather than the victim's objections.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.ennaharonline.com/%D9%84%D8%A7-%D9%8A%D8%AD%D9%81%D8%B8-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A2%D9%86-%D8%A5%D9%84%D8%A7-%D8%A2%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A93-%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7/ Corpus classification: local-court-reporting; evidentiary role: judgment-report. SHA-256 a5e3aaa275408e7ed5ceab5a1f0bab3ec71421a3414240b94cfc77a4baa4fc53
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