Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Berkane and Oujda, Morocco · 2020

'Raqi of Berkane': ten-year sentence affirmed for trafficking and sexual violence

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Disposition and response

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Appellate history

2020-10-20

The appellate chamber affirmed the first-instance conviction and ten-year sentence.

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-presented raqi and Quranic healer

Organization

No organization assigned

Archive classification

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

The cited record identifies ruqya and evil-eye treatment claims, access to women seeking help, drugging, recording and blackmail, and threats of public exposure as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is self-presented raqi and Quranic healer.

Spiritual healing or treatment

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2019-10-30 · first-instance judgment and sentence

Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal in Oujda, Morocco. The court imposed ten years' imprisonment and a fine after convictions including trafficking people in vulnerable circumstances, rape, attempted rape, violent sexual assault and fraud.
2020-10-20 · criminal appeal

Appellate Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal in Oujda, Morocco. The appellate chamber affirmed the ten-year prison sentence.

Documented coercion mechanisms

ruqya and evil-eye treatment claims
access to women seeking help
drugging
recording and blackmail
threats of public exposure

Cited record

Sources

local court reporting trial judgment report Le360, 'Le raqi de Berkane condamné à 10 ans de prison' (Oct. 31, 2019; French).: Detailed first-instance court reporting records the offense categories, sentence, Quranic-healing pretext, drugging, recording and blackmail while preserving the defendant's initials.
local court reporting appellate judgment report Le360, 'Oujda Court of Appeal upholds the first-instance judgment against the Raqi of Berkane' (Oct. 21, 2020; Arabic).: The appellate report records the October 20 affirmance of the ten-year sentence and the trafficking, rape, attempted-rape and violent-assault findings.

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Source and tier basis: https://fr.le360.ma/societe/le-raqi-de-berkane-condamne-a-10-ans-de-prison-201481/ Corpus classification: local-court-reporting; evidentiary role: trial-judgment-report. SHA-256 a3e916f6631f6ace0fb4441fc7f376d6db6ffe2e9a9107b6065dea21cf861327
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://ar.le360.ma/societe/170944/ Corpus classification: local-court-reporting; evidentiary role: appellate-judgment-report. SHA-256 d133d38d9e8436ecb7cf784c6e8b7ed616b07a7156404d9d4ca9ef98aabdc4c8
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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