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Conviction Islam (convicted individuals) Quranic-school and daara systems Um Baru, North Darfur, Sudan · 2022

Um Baru khalwa leader: fifteen-year sentence for abuse of child pupils

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Quranic-school sheikh and teacher

Organization

unnamed Quranic school in Um Baru

Spiritual nexus

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

  • Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2022-03-22 · criminal judgment and sentence

    Child Court of El Fasher, Sudan. The court convicted the khalwa sheikh, imposed fifteen years' imprisonment and a ten-million-Sudanese-pound financial order, and directed that the ten affected children receive psychosocial support.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • religious-teacher authority
  • institutional access to child pupils
  • isolation within a khalwa

Primary record

Sources

independent sudanese court reporting judgment report Radio Dabanga, 'Fifteen years for the abuser of khalwa children in North Darfur' (Mar. 22, 2022; Arabic).

The judgment report records the court, judge, sentence, financial order, psychosocial-support direction and the defendant's authority over ten pupils at a Quranic school.

independent local court reporting trial corroboration Darfur24, 'Trial resumes for accused abuser of khalwa children in North Darfur' (Mar. 13, 2022; Arabic).

Independent contemporaneous reporting corroborates the El Fasher Child Court proceeding, Um Baru school setting, ten child complainants and use of an interpreter for pupils who spoke only their local language.

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