Russia: two convicted over an unregistered religious boarding school where children were beaten and confined
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Authority role
teachers running an unregistered Islamic boarding school for children aged four to sixteen
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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
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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
Cited record
Sources
- national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Ufa1: court report of the convictions and sentences.
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- https://ufa1.ru/text/criminal/2025/12/04/76154975/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 673b41e95c6a58bf52ad39df2dd72913a818636daaf29cbb33f116285fcf884b
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