Conviction Islam (convicted individuals) Ruqya, shrine, and healing contexts Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria · 2023

Mazraoua raqi: five-year sentence after fatal beating framed as spirit removal

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

locally known raqi and relative of the victim

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The cited record identifies claimed spirit-possession diagnosis, violent ruqya, beating with an olive branch, and family trust in a purported healer as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is locally known raqi and relative of the victim.

Spiritual healing or treatment
Exorcism or deliverance

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2023-11-28 · criminal judgment and sentence

Criminal Court of the Sidi Bel Abbès Judicial Council, Algeria. The court imposed five years' imprisonment on the raqi after finding that his beating of his adult niece during claimed ruqya caused her death. Two relatives received separate suspended three-month sentences for failure to assist a person in danger.

Documented coercion mechanisms

claimed spirit-possession diagnosis
violent ruqya
beating with an olive branch
family trust in a purported healer

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting judgment report Echorouk, 'Raqi takes his niece's life claiming to expel a jinn' (Nov. 28, 2023; Arabic).: The detailed judgment report records the five-year sentence, separate suspended sentences, the forensic finding of fatal head trauma and evidence that the violence was presented as a means of locating and expelling a spirit.

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