UK: ‘Islamic sect’ members arrested following allegations of sexual abuse and slavery

LONDON: More than 500 constabulary officers raided an "Islamic sect” connected Wednesday and arrested 10 members for assorted offences, including rape, intersexual battle and quality trafficking.The officers, nether the ticker of a constabulary helicopter, raided the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL) office situated astatine a erstwhile orphanage, Webb House, Crewe, wherever astir 150 adults and children live, on with 2 different properties, astatine 8.50am section time. One of those arrested was the group’s spiritual leader, Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Safiq.Seven men, of American, British, Mexican, Spanish, German and Egyptian nationality, were arrested for a scope of offences, including quality trafficking, forced marriage, intersexual assault, modern slavery, rape and assault.

Three women, of Italian, Swedish and American nationality, were each arrested connected suspicion of modern slavery offences and intersexual assault.A further 13 radical were arrested connected suspicion of nationalist bid offences wrong the property.Cheshire constabulary said that past period they were made alert of allegations of superior intersexual offences, forced matrimony and slavery, reported to person taken spot successful 2023, each involving 1 pistillate who was a subordinate of the group.

AROPL is simply a millenarian spiritual question with roots successful Twelver Shia Islam. It has nary transportation to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. It began successful Basra, Iraq successful the precocious 1990s, explained Dr Sarah Harvey, elder probe serviceman astatine Inform, and is present progressive crossed 40 countries.In 2018, the question was based successful Sweden but, pursuing raids by Swedish police, successful 2021, it acceptable up its office successful England. Followers deterioration achromatic beanies and galore of its beliefs, specified arsenic allowing the depletion of alcohol, diverge from Islam, which has led to the group’s spiritual persecution successful galore Muslim-majority countries. The radical believes that the Illuminati controls America and that aliens power US presidents.Chief Superintendent Gareth Wrigley said: “While those arrested are members of the group, this is not an probe into the religion, this is an probe into the superior allegations.”