Hopefully the will stop this practice all over Egypt, although it is still going on in many locations outside if Egypt.. There have even been cases of this happening here in the U.S. It's a shame that this particular custom has to be brought here.
Egypt girl's death after genital excision leads to unprecedented trial
Activists hope the case will help bring an end to genital excision in Egypt, a banned practice that's still common in rural areas.
By Laura King
April 22, 2014, 5:00 a.m.
DEYARB BOQTARES, Egypt By all accounts, Soheir Bataa was a bright and lively girl. At 13, she was diligent in her schoolwork, with her math teacher recalling an eager pupil. On her run-down street in this Nile Delta village, she could often be seen hoisting a neighborhood toddler onto a skinny hip.
Until her parents decided that Soheir would be taken to a nearby clinic really just the upper floor of a house on a dead-end dirt lane where a doctor who doubled as a mosque preacher was known for performing a procedure called thara. The term, alluding to cleansing or purifying, means the cutting away of a girl's external genitalia.
In that house perched beside a rubbish-strewn ravine, Soheir died.
Egypt girl's death after genital excision leads to unprecedented trial - latimes.com
Egypt girl's death after genital excision leads to unprecedented trial
Activists hope the case will help bring an end to genital excision in Egypt, a banned practice that's still common in rural areas.
By Laura King
April 22, 2014, 5:00 a.m.
DEYARB BOQTARES, Egypt By all accounts, Soheir Bataa was a bright and lively girl. At 13, she was diligent in her schoolwork, with her math teacher recalling an eager pupil. On her run-down street in this Nile Delta village, she could often be seen hoisting a neighborhood toddler onto a skinny hip.
Until her parents decided that Soheir would be taken to a nearby clinic really just the upper floor of a house on a dead-end dirt lane where a doctor who doubled as a mosque preacher was known for performing a procedure called thara. The term, alluding to cleansing or purifying, means the cutting away of a girl's external genitalia.
In that house perched beside a rubbish-strewn ravine, Soheir died.
Egypt girl's death after genital excision leads to unprecedented trial - latimes.com