Monday 26 January 2015

Egypt court convicts doctor of female genital mutilation

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Women’s Center for Guidance and Legal Awareness, shows a portrait of Sohair el-Batea, who died last year after undergoing a female genital mutilation operation by Dr. Raslan Fadl, in Egypt. Lawyer Reda al-Danbouki says an appeals court has convicted Dr. Fadl of manslaughter and performing a female genital mutilation that killed el-Batea sentencing him to two years and three months in prison. Female genital mutilation was criminalized in 2008, but remains widespread in Egypt, where more than 90 percent of women are estimated to have undergone it. (AP Photo/Women’s Center for Guidance and Legal Awareness, File) CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian appeals court on Monday convicted a doctor of manslaughter and performing female genital mutilation that led to the death of a 13-year-old girl, sentencing him to two years and three months in prison in the country's first case that came to trial over the widespread practice, defense lawyers said.




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