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8:42 CAT | 04 Dec 2019
Similar abuse has taken place at Koranic schools in Nigeria. [Picture: Reuters]
A court in Senegal has handed down a two-year suspended prison sentence to the head of a Koranic school for chaining up children.
Serigne Khadim Gueye was convicted along with four parents and the metalworker who made the chains.
They were arrested last month after a photo shared on social media showed several children in the northern town of Ndiagne with chains around their feet.
The case has split opinion in the Muslim-majority nation, where many thousands of children attend Koranic schools.
Some parents argued that they didn’t know chaining a child was illegal.
There have been similar cases of horrific abuse in Nigeria, where the government has responded by shutting down some of the schools.
Source: BBC
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