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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Other or denomination not established Crna Reka, Serbia · 2009

Crna Reka spiritual-rehabilitation center: employee rape and violence convictions

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Record class

Institutional event

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

staff of a spiritual-rehabilitation center, institutional custodians of people seeking addiction treatment

Organization

Crna Reka Spiritual Rehabilitation Center

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The cited record identifies custodial treatment authority, spiritual-rehabilitation framing, physical punishment, and institutional isolation as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is staff of a spiritual-rehabilitation center and institutional custodians of people seeking addiction treatment.

  • Spiritual healing or treatment
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2009-10-14 · criminal judgments and sentences

    District Court in Novi Pazar, Serbia. Nemanja Radosavljevic was convicted of rape and violent behavior and received two years and five months; Marijan Pavicevic was convicted of rape and received one year.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • custodial treatment authority
  • spiritual-rehabilitation framing
  • physical punishment
  • institutional isolation

Cited record

Sources

high quality court reporting judgment report Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 'Crna Reka rehabilitation center associates convicted' (Oct. 14, 2009).

Contemporaneous reporting based on the Novi Pazar District Court records both convictions and sentences and identifies the institution as a spiritual-rehabilitation center exposed after video of staff beating residents became public.

public broadcaster reporting institutional investigation context Radio Television of Serbia, 'Rapid investigation into the Crna Reka case' (May 28, 2009).

Serbia's public broadcaster documents the police investigation, testimony about beatings, the priest-director's questioning and the center's nonmedical rehabilitation setting.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis
https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/crna_reka/1851185.html Corpus classification: high-quality-court-reporting; evidentiary role: judgment-report. SHA-256 6e3b7580a5c036a6ce91e573f9ef1a28a664f6a5143ab0b0bbc6113531559b1b
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https://www.rts.rs/lat/vesti/drustvo/64455/.html?print=true Corpus classification: public-broadcaster-reporting; evidentiary role: institutional-investigation-context. SHA-256 e14fc6cb6676878a7b2b13404cd853a145fc19001c8cd03e98474d77f9f5307a
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