Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Talkha, Dakahlia, Egypt · 2025

Egypt: mosque imam's life sentence for assaulting a Quran student upheld on cassation

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Appellate history

2025

Upheld; final.

Record class

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

mosque imam and preacher (Islamic Endowments employee), Quran memorisation teacher

Organization

No organization assigned

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The child was his Quran student; the memorisation lessons were the mechanism that moved her from the mosque to his home.

Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2025-01-01 · conviction and life sentence; upheld on cassation

Egyptian criminal courts; Mansoura Court of Cassation. Suleiman Fayed Suleiman Muhammad, a mosque imam and Islamic Endowments employee, was convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl of about twelve whom he lured to his home after Quran memorisation lessons, with forensic corroboration. He received a life sentence (25 years at hard labour) with a fine and compensation, upheld by the Mansoura Court of Cassation.

Documented coercion mechanisms

private memorisation lessons used to lure the child to his home

Cited record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting final appellate disposition 'تأييد المؤبد لإمام مسجد اعتدى على طفلة بالدقهلية', Masrawy (Jan. 2025), corroborated by Al-Masry Al-Youm and Elwatan.: Reports the conviction, the forensic basis, and the cassation affirmance.

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Source and tier basis: https://www.masrawy.com/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: final-appellate-disposition. SHA-256 cee15b66ac35b6ec3ff074738efd733667dbf45cb03451eadf29970b243703df
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