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Egypt: No Explanation for First Genital Cutting Verdict
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 20 November 2014
A doctor being tried on charges of female genital mutilation (FGM) was acquitted on Thursday, ending Egypt's first trial of its kind, a rights group said. Read more »
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Egypt: Doctor Walks Free After Girl Dies from Genital Cutting
allAfrica, 20 November 2014
An Egyptian court has acquitted the first doctor ever brought to trial in Egypt on female genital mutilation charges that resulted in the death of 13-year-old Sohair… Read more »
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Egypt: Watershed Moment for Egypt's FGM Ban
DW, 20 November 2014
Sohair el-Batea died after her father took her to a rural Egyptian doctor to have her genitals cut. The two men are the first to go on trial under Egypt's FGM ban, which could be a… Read more »
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Egypt: 13-Year-Old Girl Dies After FGM Operation
Aswat Masriya, 10 June 2013
Thirteen-year-old Sohair al-Batea died shortly after a Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) operation was conducted on her Thursday evening at a clinic in the governorate of Daqahlia, a… Read more »
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Egypt: Egypt Holds First Female Genital Mutilation Trial
Aswat Masriya, 22 May 2014
A doctor will stand trial on Thursday on charges of female genital mutilation following the death of a 13-year-old girl who underwent FGM last June, marking the first prosecution… Read more »
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Egypt: Female Genital Mutilation Trial Postponed to June
Aswat Masriya, 22 May 2014
An Egyptian court postponed on Thursday the female genital mutilation trial of a doctor who had preformed the surgery on a teenage girl that led to her to death to June 19. Read more »
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Egypt: Court Strikes Down Challenge to FGM Criminalization
Aswat Masriya, 3 February 2013
Egypt's Constitutional Court decided on Sunday to strike down a legal challenge against article 242 of the criminal code that criminalizes female genital mutilation (FGM). Read more »
Doctor Walks Free in First Egypt Genital Cutting Trial
An Egyptian court has acquitted the first doctor ever brought to trial in Egypt on female genital mutilation charges that resulted in the death of 13-year-old Sohair al-Bata'a.
Thirteen-year-old Sohair al-Bata'a died during a genital cutting operation in Egypt. The trial of her doctor and father ended in their acquittal.
