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  • Two Michigan doctors are CLEARED of female genital mutilation charges as federal judge [tr]

    11/21/2018 4:16:59 AM PST · by C19fan · 89 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | November 21, 2018 | Jessa Schroeder
    A federal judge dismissed charges Tuesday against two doctors and six others involved in the genital mutilation of nine girls at a Detroit clinic, and also declared a US law banning the practice unconstitutional. US District Judge Bernard Friedman dismissed mutilation and conspiracy charges against Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, who performed the surgery, and Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, who allowed his clinic in Livonia, Michigan, to be used for the procedure. The same charges were dismissed against Attar's wife, Farida, and Tahera Shafiq, who assisted in the procedure, as well as four women who tricked their daughters into going to the suburban...
  • Minnesota considers anti-female genital mutilation measure

    05/03/2017 2:40:25 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 25 replies
    Associated Press ^ | May 3, 2017 5:27 PM EDT | Kyle Potter
    Minnesota lawmakers sat in stunned silence Wednesday as a Somali-American woman described how she was grabbed while sleeping by her mother and relatives, blindfolded and tied down to have her genitals cut as a young girl. She still remembers the pain, the blood and a woman holding the piece of her flesh above her. Farhio Khalif’s story put a name and face to the little-known cultural ritual now in the national spotlight after a Detroit-area doctor was charged with genital mutilation for allegedly performing the procedure on two 7-year-old girls from Minnesota. A federal judge on Wednesday denied bond for...