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Conviction Islam (convicted individuals) Quranic-school and daara systems Berkane and Oujda, Morocco · 2020

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

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-presented raqi and Quranic healer

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

Appellate history

  1. 2020-10-20 · undefined

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

Documented coercion mechanisms

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

Primary 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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