Guelma: prosecutor announces arrest after 10-year-old girl dies during ruqya session
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ruqya practitioner
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The child died during a ruqya session conducted by the accused practitioner under claimed religious-healing authority.
- Spiritual healing or treatment
- Exorcism or deliverance
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Guelma public prosecutor's office, Algeria. A 10-year-old girl in Guelma died after being subjected to physical abuse during a ruqya (Islamic healing/exorcism) session; the Guelma public prosecutor announced the arrest of the practitioner responsible.
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- claimed exorcism/healing authority
- physical restraint/violence framed as ritual treatment
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- press aggregate needs primary arrest report Aggregated Arabic-language press reporting on the Guelma fatal-ruqya case and prosecutor's arrest announcement (search-result summary; primary article URL not yet isolated).
Confirms death of a 10-year-old girl during a ruqya session in Guelma and the prosecutor's announcement of the practitioner's arrest.
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- https://www.hespress.com/ Corpus classification: press-aggregate-needs-primary; evidentiary role: arrest-report. SHA-256 c6a048e1a301d4a679325c349d1f698400e2f96ade87aa69ae8a6ed988c84352
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