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Officials have arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping him prisoner.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/NLYpz
Officials have arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping him prisoner.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/NLYpz
Bad translation/cultural interpretation? Maybe they meant something along the lines of “if I spoke he would have hurt my family” which is a verbal phrase that holds power over him, sort of like a spell.
No translation issue there. Northern Africa is quite known for witchcraft. People here might have trouble coming to terms with this, but it is what it is.