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Severe abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children known as talibés continue at alarming rates in many of Senegal’s Quranic schools.
Human Rights Watch estimates over 100,000 talibé children in Senegal are forced by their Quranic teachers to beg daily for money, food, rice, or sugar. Many set begging quotas enforced with often severe beatings.
Children reported being tied, chained, or imprisoned in cell-like rooms in residential Quranic schools, known as daaras, sometimes for weeks or months as punishment.
“If we tried to run away, the [teacher] would chain us by both legs, so we couldn’t move,” said one 13-year-old talibé.
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