A doctor is to stand trial in Egypt on charges of female g enital mutilation, the first case of its kind in a country where FGM is illegal but widely accepted. [s]The Guardian[/s] reports that Raslan Fadl, a doctor in a Nile delta village, is accused of killing 13-year-old schoolgirl Sohair al-Bata’a in a botched FGM operation last June. Sohair's father, Mohamed al-Bata'a, will also be charged with complicity in her death. Fadl denies the charges.
[link url=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/21/egyptian-doctor-fadl-trial-female-g enital-mutilation-landmark-case]Full report in The Guardian[/link]