Tangier raqi: ten-year sentence for assaults committed through claimed ruqya
Record class
Core record
Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
self-presented raqi and spiritual healer
Organization
No organization assigned
Spiritual nexus
The cited record identifies ruqya and spirit-treatment claims, access to women seeking care, administration of sedating substances, recording of victims, and use of amplified Quran recitation to conceal assaults as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is self-presented raqi and spiritual healer.
- Spiritual healing or treatment
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2023-04-04 · criminal judgment and sentence
Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal in Tangier, Morocco. The court imposed ten years' imprisonment after convictions reported as rape, fraud, adultery and sorcery-related offenses involving women who sought ruqya.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- ruqya and spirit-treatment claims
- access to women seeking care
- administration of sedating substances
- recording of victims
- use of amplified Quran recitation to conceal assaults
Primary record
Sources
- local court reporting judgment report Le360, 'Raqi in Tangier convicted over rape and recording women' (Apr. 4, 2023; Arabic).
Contemporaneous courtroom reporting records the ten-year sentence, the claimed ruqya practice and evidence concerning sedating liquids, assaults and recordings.
- local court reporting judgment corroboration Alyaoum24, 'Ten years in prison for a raqi in Tangier over sorcery and sexual assaults' (Apr. 7, 2023; Arabic).
Independent court reporting corroborates the criminal chamber, sentence, sexual-assault findings and spiritual-treatment pretext.
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