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/ 14 December 2007
In an act that has sparked outrage among Egyptian women’s rights activists, a controversial Islamic scholar filed a lawsuit against the minister of health protesting against a recent ban on female circumcision, a practice referred to by rights groups as female genital mutilation.
Twelve-year-old Mohammed Abdelaziz’s brother said he screamed in pain as he was tortured in Egyptian police custody, but his screams are now silent. Pictures recently published on a popular Egyptian blog showed Mohammed dead with signs of torture all over his skinny little body.