Egypt\u2019s top prosecutor on Saturday referred a doctor and two others to the criminal court after a 12-year old girl died undergoing female circumcision, also known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), that he performed in Upper Egypt\u2019s Assiut.<\/p>\n
Four people, including a parent, an uncle and a retired physician, were imprisoned four days pending investigation in January following the incident. The initial investigations revealed that parent and the uncle went to a gynecologist for FGM. However, after the retired doctor carried out the FGM operation, the girl suffered from complications led to her death.<\/p>\n
The General Prosecution on Saturday urged doctors to fulfill their educational role by correcting the society\u2019s misconceptions concerning circumcision, including get people acquainted with the consequent harm and pain of such practice to women.<\/p>\n
The Public Prosecution in a statement called on everybody to cooperate to eliminate such phenomenon and not to cover such \u201ccrime\u201d up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Public Prosecution also appeals to the legislator to reconsider the penalty stipulated for the perpetrator of a circumcision crime if he is a doctor,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n
Egypt imposed a complete ban on female genital cutting \u2014 also known as female genital mutilation or circumcision \u2014 in June 2007 after Budour Shaker, a 11-year-old girl in Upper Egypt\u2019s Minya, died of an excessive dose of anesthesia while being cut at a private clinic.<\/p>\n
Egypt\u2019s Grand Mufti, the government\u2019s official arbiter of Islamic law, decreed during the same year that female genital cutting was forbidden by Islam, in his strongest statement against the practice.<\/p>\n
FGM was criminalized by Egyptian parliament in June 2008, thus creating a paradigm shift by moving the practice from social norm to crime.<\/p>\n
Egypt Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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