Unnamed imam: three-month sentence for assault during Quranic healing
Record class
Core record
Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
imam invited to perform Quranic healing
Organization
No organization assigned
Spiritual nexus
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
Primary record
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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