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Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Diourbel, Senegal · 2021

Senegal: Quranic teacher convicted for chaining talibé children in his daara

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

maître coranique running a residential daara

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Boys placed by their families in a religious teacher's total residential care — the chaining was an exercise of exactly that unchecked custody.

  • Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2021-01-21 · conviction and sentence

    Tribunal de grande instance de Diourbel, Senegal. Ibrahima Dieng, a maître coranique, admitted chaining talibé boys resident in his Diourbel daara; on 21 January 2021 he was convicted of violence and mistreatment of the children and sentenced to two years, fifteen days of it firm.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • families' placement of boys in his residential religious care
  • chaining presented as discipline against escape

Primary record

Sources

national news agency verdict and sentencing report 'Diourbel : un maître coranique condamné à deux ans de prison dont 15 jours ferme', Agence de Presse Sénégalaise.

The national press agency's court report.

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Affaire des talibés enchaînés à Diourbel : la sentence est tombée', SeneNews, 21 Jan. 2021.

Independent verdict-day coverage.

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