Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems El Gedaref, Sudan · 2020

El Gedaref khalwa leader: conviction for abuse of Quranic-school pupils

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Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

mosque imam, head of a Quranic school

Organization

Quranic school attached to Deim El Nour Mosque

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The cited record identifies religious-teacher authority, institutional access to child pupils, and abuse within a khalwa attached to a mosque as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is mosque imam and head of a Quranic school.

Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2020-07-05 · criminal judgment and sentence

Child Court of El Gedaref, Sudan. The court convicted the imam and khalwa leader of sexually abusing pupils and imposed a death sentence. The available reporting does not establish the later mandatory-review or appellate disposition.

Documented coercion mechanisms

religious-teacher authority
institutional access to child pupils
abuse within a khalwa attached to a mosque

Cited record

Sources

independent sudanese court reporting judgment report Radio Dabanga, 'El Gedaref Child Court sentences khalwa sheikh after conviction for abusing pupils' (July 5, 2020; Arabic).: Sudanese court reporting records the conviction, first-instance sentence, imam and school-head roles, medical evidence and the abuse setting in a khalwa attached to a mosque.
specialist monitoring judgment corroboration Hands Off Cain, 'Sudan: Koran teacher sentenced to death for sexual abuse' (July 2020).: Independent English-language monitoring corroborates the El Gedaref judgment, institutional roles and abuse of students while identifying Radio Dabanga as the underlying local report.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://www.dabangasudan.org/ar/all-news/article/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%81%D9%84-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%81-%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF Corpus classification: independent-sudanese-court-reporting; evidentiary role: judgment-report. SHA-256 892ba20b02425edbacff91d3ba4195dcbf60d93fbfb80901b0a87751c3a5c9c7
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://english.nessunotocchicaino.it/notizia/sudan-koran-teacher-sentenced-to-death-for-sexual-abuse-60311201 Corpus classification: specialist-monitoring; evidentiary role: judgment-corroboration.
Retrieval: 2026-07-27 · Retrieval failed; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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