Asadullo Ibrohimov: seven-year sentence for sexual misconduct during purported infertility treatment
Record class
Core record
Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
mullah, purported religious healer
Organization
No organization assigned
Spiritual nexus
The cited record identifies infertility-treatment pretext, Quran recitation, exploitation of a vulnerable state, and religious-family authority as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is mullah and purported religious healer.
- Spiritual healing or treatment
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2013-10-24 · closed criminal trial and sentence
Sino District Court of Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The court convicted Ibrohimov of sexual misconduct and fraud and imposed seven years in prison and a fine.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- infertility-treatment pretext
- Quran recitation
- exploitation of a vulnerable state
- religious-family authority
Primary record
Sources
- high quality court reporting judgment report Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 'Infertility Treatment Lands Tajik Mullah in Court' (Oct. 22, 2013).
Detailed trial reporting records the guilty verdict, seven-year sentence, Quran-recitation treatment pretext and Interior Ministry finding that Ibrohimov exploited the woman's vulnerable state.
- local court reporting judgment corroboration Avesta, 'Dushanbe mullah-healer received seven years' (Oct. 24, 2013).
Local contemporaneous reporting corroborates the court, offenses, sentence and fine.
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