The first doctor charged in Egypt with committing female genital mutilation has been acquitted on Thursday. The doctor was charged along with the father of a 13-year-old girl for committing female genital mutilation that led to her death. More than 90 percent of Egyptian women undergo the procedure, which involved a cutting of the clitoris and labia to try and control a woman’s sexual appetite. It was criminalized in 2008.
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