Egypt doctor convicted over girl’s death in landmark FGM case: TRFN

By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An Egyptian doctor has been convicted of manslaughter after a 13-year-old girl died in a botched female genital mutilation procedure, campaigners said on Monday following the country’s first FGM trial. Dr Raslan Fadl was originally cleared of charges relating to the death of Soheir al-Batea but prosecutors appealed the verdict which was overturned on Monday, Equality Now said. “The country has shown that it will implement its laws and we hope that this is the first step towards ending this extreme form of violence against women once and for all.” Al-Batea died in June 2013 after undergoing FGM in a clinic north of Cairo, at her father’s request. Over 90 percent of women and girls between the ages of 15 and 49 in Egypt have undergone FGM, according to U.N. estimates.
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