Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia · 2025

Russia: two convicted over an unregistered religious boarding school where children were beaten and confined

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

teachers running an unregistered Islamic boarding school for children aged four to sixteen

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Parents handed their children to these men for religious education; the closed religious-boarding structure is what turned that handover into captivity.

Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2025-12-04 · convictions and sentences

Leninsky District Court of Ufa, Russia. On 4 December 2025 the Leninsky District Court of Ufa convicted two men who had run an unregistered religious boarding school for Muslim children aged four to sixteen, where pupils were regularly beaten and abused until one escaped in the summer of 2024 and exposed it. They were convicted of unlawful deprivation of liberty of minors with violence, torture with cruelty, and organising illegal migration, receiving eleven and six years in strict-regime colonies with teaching bans and confiscation.

Documented coercion mechanisms

parents surrendering children to the teachers' religious authority for Quranic education
closed boarding structure enabling confinement and beatings

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Ufa1: court report of the convictions and sentences.: Regional outlet's court report.

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