GUINEA-BISSAU: Guinea-Bissau will try six people for female - TopicsExpress



          

GUINEA-BISSAU: Guinea-Bissau will try six people for female circumcision, a judicial source told AFP Friday, in the west African nations first prosecutions since the practice was outlawed three years ago. The government-run National Committee for the Abandonment of Harmful Practices, which brought the complaint, said it hoped the group would get long sentences, although they have yet to be convicted. The committees spokesman Fatima Djau Balde said he hoped the prosecutions would “be a lesson to those still thinking of perpetuating this harmful and retrograde practice”.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 10:10:00 +0000

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