Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Um Baru, North Darfur, Sudan · 2022

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

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Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Quranic-school sheikh and teacher

Organization

unnamed Quranic school in Um Baru

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 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

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

Cited 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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Source and tier basis: https://www.dabangasudan.org/ar/all-news/article/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%86-15-%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A8-%D8%A3%D8%B7%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84 Corpus classification: independent-sudanese-court-reporting; evidentiary role: judgment-report. SHA-256 cf960f06e515c57ebd866d59d0bbaa1d8d1f529c777d8464efee23296a58c566
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Source and tier basis: https://darfur24.com/2022/03/13/42023/ Corpus classification: independent-local-court-reporting; evidentiary role: trial-corroboration. SHA-256 bdb709b5a4e2ac6e44377d8d5ca9ed39a2b7170fcd0d81b0d8920d15ceed44e2
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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