Monday, January 26, 2015

Egypt: Doctor jailed after Egypt’s first FGM conviction

 From The Guardian, Jan 26, 2015

 "Raslan Fadl sentenced to two years and three months over procedure that caused death of 13-year-old girl"

      A doctor has become the first in Egypt to be convicted of female genital mutilation, seven years after the widely practised procedure was first criminalised in the country.
Raslan Fadl was previously acquitted of the manslaughter of 13-year-old Sohair al-Bataa during an FGM procedure in a village in northern Egypt. Prosecutors appealed against the verdict, and on Monday another court found him guilty both of causing Sohair’s death and of mutilating her.

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