559. Unnamed Quaran school in Hargeisa, Somalia

This Somaliland based boarding school was used when parents of girls with ethnic origins from the area now living in Denmark, Norway or United Kingdom believed that their girls had adapted too well to the western life style.

So they lured their girls on holiday and enrolled them in this boarding school with the help of bribed policemen.

Here the girls were shackled if they were believed to be planning escape and subjected to a non-western life style and teaching.

One of the girls escaped the boarding school and her information led to a raid where other girls from a number of western countries were liberated.

It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.

Sources:

• Norwegian arrested in Somaliland (Norway Today)
• Norwegian Detained In Action Against School In Somaliland (WARGEYSKA SAXAFI)
• Danish-Somali Girls Freed From The Koran School In Somaliland (WARGEYSKA SAXAFI)