Egypt’s first female genital mutilation trial ends in not guilty verdict

[tay]

Dr Raslan Fadl and father of girl who died during the procedure have been acquitted, dashing hopes for a nationwide crackdown.




Raslan Fadl, a doctor and Islamic preacher in the village of Agga, northern Egypt, was acquitted of mutilating Sohair al-Bata’a in June 2013. The 12-year-old died during the alleged procedure, but Fadl was also acquitted of her manslaughter.


No reason was given by the judge, with the verdict being simply scrawled in a court ledger, rather than being announced in the Agga courtroom.


Sohair’s father, Mohamed al-Bata’a, was also acquitted of responsibility. Police and health officials testified that the child’s parents had admitted taking their daughter to Fadl’s clinic for the procedure.


Despite his acquittal, the doctor was ordered to pay 5,001 Egyptian pounds (about £450) to Sohair’s mother for her daughter’s manslaughter, after the pair reached an out-of-court settlement.


The case was pursued rigorously by activists and state officials in the hope that it would send a strong message to doctors that FGM, which was nominally made illegal in 2008, will no longer be tolerated in Egypt. Instead, said a lawyer from a local rights group – the first to take up Sohair’s case – the verdict signalled the opposite.


“Of course there will be no stopping any doctor after this. Any doctor can do any FGM he wants now,” said Atef Aboelenein, a lawyer for the Women’s Centre for Guidance and Legal Awareness, who was the first to find out the verdict.




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[Sal]

The case was pursued rigorously by activists and state officials in the hope that it would send a strong message to doctors that FGM, which was nominally made illegal in 2008, will no longer be tolerated in Egypt. Instead, said a lawyer from a local rights group – the first to take up Sohair’s case – the verdict signalled the opposite.


“Of course there will be no stopping any doctor after this. Any doctor can do any FGM he wants now,” said Atef Aboelenein, a lawyer for the Women’s Centre for Guidance and Legal Awareness, who was the first to find out the verdict.

and the travesty continues, proof positive that in some countries children are property to be done with as one chooses and there will be no consequence given strong enough to stop the behaviour

so they must believe Allah made a mistake when creating women, no, this practice has been outlawed there yet still it continues

the one light I see in this is that it took a long time for them to get over the burka but they have so hopefully this type of mutilation will follow shortly

 

[Colpy]

Dr Raslan Fadl and father of girl who died during the procedure have been acquitted, dashing hopes for a nationwide crackdown.




Raslan Fadl, a doctor and Islamic preacher in the village of Agga, northern Egypt, was acquitted of mutilating Sohair al-Bata’a in June 2013. The 12-year-old died during the alleged procedure, but Fadl was also acquitted of her manslaughter.


No reason was given by the judge, with the verdict being simply scrawled in a court ledger, rather than being announced in the Agga courtroom.


Sohair’s father, Mohamed al-Bata’a, was also acquitted of responsibility. Police and health officials testified that the child’s parents had admitted taking their daughter to Fadl’s clinic for the procedure.


Despite his acquittal, the doctor was ordered to pay 5,001 Egyptian pounds (about £450) to Sohair’s mother for her daughter’s manslaughter, after the pair reached an out-of-court settlement.


The case was pursued rigorously by activists and state officials in the hope that it would send a strong message to doctors that FGM, which was nominally made illegal in 2008, will no longer be tolerated in Egypt. Instead, said a lawyer from a local rights group – the first to take up Sohair’s case – the verdict signalled the opposite.


“Of course there will be no stopping any doctor after this. Any doctor can do any FGM he wants now,” said Atef Aboelenein, a lawyer for the Women’s Centre for Guidance and Legal Awareness, who was the first to find out the verdict.




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There was no doubt that this would be the verdict.

In 2003 a WHO study established that 94% (that's NINETY-FOUR percent) of adult Egyptian women had undergone FGM, and that 69% of MOTHERS approved the procedure.

WHO | Female genital mutilation and other harmful practices

I think this may be slightly high, as 9% of the Egyptian population are Coptic Christians, and do not do FGM.

But you can be pretty damned sure that the vast majority of Muslim women were mutilated.............
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This has fallen in recent years, but is still extremely "popular" in that country.

I have here a nice stick with which to beat the first idiot that brings up a comparison with male circumcision.

I know you are out there.

the one light I see in this is that it took a long time for them to get over the burka but they have so hopefully this type of mutilation will follow shortly

Unfortunately.....

University of Cairo graduating class, 1959

University of Cairo Graduating class 1978

University of Cairo Graduating Class 1995:

University of Cairo Graduating Class of 2004:

And these are educated women.

Islam is radicalizing, not reforming.

 

[grainfedpraiboy]

Female Genital Mutilation: Reason 63 to ban third world Muslim immigration.

Really what can be said here on this topic? Unless you're a batshyte liberal super accommodator or are an average Muslim coming from one of the many cultures that interprets the Koran to endorse this sort of savagery who actually supports it?

Countries like Egypt are very dependent on western aid and as such have to on an official level make some gestures towards human rights to keep the money coming but bottom line is the whole trial was a farce just like their constitution and any other law that runs counter to the local interpretation of Sharia.

 

[Colpy]

Female Genital Mutilation: Reason 63 to ban third world Muslim immigration.

Really what can be said here on this topic? Unless you're a batshyte liberal super accommodator or are an average Muslim coming from one of the many cultures that interprets the Koran to endorse this sort of savagery who actually supports it?

Countries like Egypt are very dependent on western aid and as such have to on an official level make some gestures towards human rights to keep the money coming but bottom line is the whole trial was a farce just like their constitution and any other law that runs counter to the local interpretation of Sharia.

The odd thing is that originally FGM was in no way Islamic......it is a practisc of pagan nomadic tribes, adopted and kept by Islam in those areas.

Just demonstrates their attitude towards women