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Conviction Claimed spiritual healing or mediumship Bulaq al-Dakrur, Giza, Egypt · 2024

Bulaq spiritual healer: ten-year sentence for coercive recording and extortion

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-presented spiritual healer claiming Quranic knowledge

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

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

  1. 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

Primary 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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