Friday, 6 December 2019

Head of Koranic school who chained students in Senegal appears in court


A court in Senegal has handed down a two-year suspended prison sentence to the head of a Koranic school for chaining up children. Four parents and the metalworker who made the chains also received suspended sentences. They were all arrested last month after a photo shared on social media showed several students with chains around their feet. But the case has split opinion in the Muslim-majority nation.
Many thousands of children attend Koranic schools, and some parents have said they didn't know chaining a child was illegal.

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