Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems El Maachate, Safi Province, Morocco · 2025

Morocco: Safi mosque imam's 20-year sentence for abusing Quran-memorization students

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Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

imam at a mosque in the Maâchate rural commune, Safi Province

Organization

mosque, Douar Ouled Taher, Maâchate rural commune, Safi Province

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The children were delivered to the imam's religious care specifically to memorize the Quran at the mosque; that role is what gave him unsupervised access to abuse them.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Guru or spiritual-teacher authority

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Proceedings

2025-08-07 · appellate criminal conviction and sentence

Criminal Chamber, Court of Appeal, Safi, Morocco. The court sentenced the imam of a mosque in the Ouled Taher area, Maâchate commune, to 20 years' imprisonment after convicting him of indecent assault on minor children aged 8 to 12 who attended the mosque for Quran memorization. The investigation followed complaints from victims' families; the imam had been arrested in January of the same year and held in pretrial detention.

Documented coercion mechanisms

religious authority over children attending the mosque for Quran memorization
custodial access during Quran lessons

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Sources

regional newspaper court reporting sentencing report Marrakech Post, '20 سنة سجنًا نافذًا لإمام مسجد تورط في هتك عرض قاصرين بإقليم آسفي' [20-year firm sentence for mosque imam involved in indecent assault of minors in Safi Province] (7 Aug. 2025).: Reports the Safi Court of Appeal's criminal chamber verdict of 20 years' imprisonment against the imam, the January arrest, and that the case involved children aged 8-12 who attended the mosque to memorize the Quran.
regional newspaper court reporting sentencing report Kech24, '20 سنة سجنا نافذا في حق إمام استغل أطفالا جنسيا' [20-year firm sentence against an imam who sexually exploited children].: Independent Moroccan outlet corroborating the sentence, the mosque setting and the Quran-memorization context.

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Source and tier basis: https://marrakechpost.com/2025/08/07/20-%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%8B%D8%A7-%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B0%D9%8B%D8%A7-%D9%84%D8%A5%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AC%D8%AF-%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B7-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%87%D8%AA/ Corpus classification: regional-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: sentencing-report. SHA-256 186147050f2f0497984cab2d72978ea70384a00c99d5971fa9e6d6a09e7e42f0
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://kech24.com/20-%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7-%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AD%D9%82-%D8%A5%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%BA%D9%84-%D8%A3%D8%B7%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7.html Corpus classification: regional-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: sentencing-report. SHA-256 8c54ad6287d68901a90c7dc47c0e4c23d1e1ff1afdc85a9ce053b5ba86863106
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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