Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Ruqya, shrine, and healing contexts Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2017

Unnamed imam: three-month sentence for assault during Quranic healing

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Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

imam invited to perform Quranic healing

Organization

No organization assigned

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The defendant was invited into a family home specifically to recite Quranic healing verses for an ill adult. The court found that he committed the assault while occupying that healing and religious-authority role and while the accompanying spouse was briefly absent.

Spiritual healing or treatment
Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2017-07-15 · criminal judgment and sentence

Dubai Criminal Court, United Arab Emirates. The court convicted the unnamed imam of sexual assault, imposed three months' imprisonment and ordered deportation after sentence.

Documented coercion mechanisms

Quranic-healing pretext
religious authority in a private home
temporary isolation from the accompanying spouse

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Sources

national newspaper court reporting criminal disposition The National, 'Imam jailed for molesting ill woman while her husband was in toilet' (July 15, 2017).: Contemporaneous court reporting records the Dubai Criminal Court conviction, three-month sentence, deportation order and the Quranic-healing setting in which the assault occurred.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/imam-jailed-for-molesting-ill-woman-while-her-husband-was-in-toilet-1.608939 Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: criminal-disposition. SHA-256 85c064160e1e7200e99e91f78cfe153ee9756ab3e76a847a6ae9f4a0e463587f
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