Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Regueb, Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia · 2019

Tunisia: unlicensed Quranic boarding-school director convicted after raid revealed abuse of resident boys

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

director of an unlicensed Quranic boarding school

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Resident boys under the school's total custodial and religious authority — the boarding structure is what made every abuse documented at the raid possible.

Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2019-11-08 · appellate conviction and sentence

Sidi Bouzid Court of Appeal, Tunisia. After a January 2019 raid on an unlicensed Quranic boarding school in Regueb housing 42 boys aged 10–17 in abusive conditions, its director was convicted of rape, sexual exploitation of minors and forced child labour — around nine resident students were found to have been sexually abused. The appeal court sentenced the director to five years with probation and a fine; reporting also cites a 20-year term that appears to attach to a co-defendant teacher in the same case cluster, a disambiguation this record preserves.

Documented coercion mechanisms

total custodial and religious authority over 42 resident boys
forced labour, caning and indoctrination documented at the raid

Primary record

Sources

international newspaper court reporting verdict report Al Jazeera and CNN Arabic coverage of the Regueb Quranic school case (2019), with the US State Department 2019 Human Rights Report on Tunisia.: Reports the raid findings, the charges, and the appellate convictions.

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