{"id":85842,"date":"2015-01-26T15:28:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T15:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=85842"},"modified":"2015-01-26T15:28:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T15:28:43","slug":"egyptian-doctor-jailed-2-years-fgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=85842","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian doctor jailed 2 years for FGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">An Egyptian doctor Raslan Fadl has been fined, and jailed for two years for carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM).<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">The doctor, who denied carrying out FGM on 13-year-old Suhair al-Bataa was according to the BBC, convicted in a landmark appeal of carrying out the act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">The decision has been described by an international activist group as a &#8220;monumental victory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/doccc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85851\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/doccc.jpg\" alt=\"doccc\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">The victim, who lived in a small farming community on the outskirts of the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, reportedly died in 2013 .<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">Government statistics have revealed that over 90% of Eyptian women aged under 50 have undergone the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Egyptian girls who died following FGM is unclear, as deaths are either recorded as haemorrhages or allergic reactions to penicillin.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC said Fadl claimed that Suhair al-Bataa&#8217;s death had been caused by a penicillin allergy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">\n<p class=\"introduction\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian doctor Raslan Fadl has been fined, and jailed for two years for carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM). The doctor, who denied carrying out FGM on 13-year-old Suhair al-Bataa was according to the BBC, convicted in a landmark appeal of carrying out the act. The decision has been described by an international activist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-85842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}