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.
Source:Fiilafmonline/BBC
