Bulaq spiritual healer: ten-year sentence for coercive recording and extortion
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Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
self-presented spiritual healer claiming Quranic knowledge
Organization
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The cited record identifies claimed diagnosis of an attached jinn, Quranic-healing pretext, coercive sexualized instructions, nonconsensual recording, and threats of publication and extortion as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is self-presented spiritual healer claiming Quranic knowledge.
- Spiritual healing or treatment
- Curse or witchcraft threat
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2024-02-20 · criminal judgment and published reasons
Giza Criminal Court, Egypt. The court's published reasons record a ten-year rigorous-imprisonment sentence for threats, privacy violations and coercive use of intimate images after the defendant induced the complainant to participate in purported spiritual treatment.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- claimed diagnosis of an attached jinn
- Quranic-healing pretext
- coercive sexualized instructions
- nonconsensual recording
- threats of publication and extortion
Cited record
Sources
- national newspaper court reporting judgment reasons report Al-Masry Al-Youm, 'Reasons for the ten-year sentence of the Bulaq charlatan in the extortion of a woman' (Feb. 20, 2024; Arabic).
Detailed reporting from the filed reasons records the sentence, threats, nonconsensual recording, claimed spiritual-healing powers, Quranic references and diagnosis of an attached jinn.
- national court reporting judgment corroboration Masrawy, 'Reasons for the judgment imprisoning the Bulaq al-Dakrur spiritual healer' (Feb. 21, 2024; Arabic).
Independent reporting identifies the Giza Criminal Court and case numbers and corroborates the ten-year sentence and the spiritual-treatment mechanism described in the judgment reasons.
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- https://www.almasryalyoum.com/news/details/3105117 Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: judgment-reasons-report. SHA-256 8c3834d7a5d93dca08a04659d30da816bedc83ee92feab4916d1cc0df432d0ef
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- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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- https://www.masrawy.com/news/news_cases/details/2024/2/21/2541462/ Corpus classification: national-court-reporting; evidentiary role: judgment-corroboration. SHA-256 5c1364fce8831b02addccfbb9c131ac6a049ad91068d047c38f1e0df80eb1fae
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- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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