Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Other Islamic authority or family context Karaganda region, Kazakhstan · 2021

Kazakhstan: village mullah's 20-year sentence for raping a thirteen-year-old upheld on appeal

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

community-chosen village mullah (not officially appointed by the muftiate)

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The family's openness to him rested on his standing as the community's religious figure; the muftiate's 'never appointed' disclaimer changes what he was on paper, not what he was to the village.

Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2021-07-01 · conviction; upheld on appeal (final)

Specialized inter-district juvenile court of Karaganda region; regional appellate panel. A forty-year-old man who served as his village's chosen mullah in Karaganda region was convicted in July 2021 of repeatedly raping a thirteen-year-old girl (January–June 2020, leaving her pregnant) under Article 120(4) of Kazakhstan's criminal code, and sentenced to 20 years with a lifetime ban on work with minors. The regional appellate panel upheld the sentence. The official muftiate stressed he was never formally appointed.

Appellate history

2021 · undefined

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Documented coercion mechanisms

religious trust of the victim's family in the community's mullah

Primary record

Sources

legal news court reporting verdict and sentencing report Zakon.kz: 'Муллу осудили на 20 лет…'.: Kazakh legal-news outlet's court report.
national newspaper court reporting appellate outcome report Liter.kz: appellate panel refuses mitigation.: Reports the appeal outcome.

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