Hommam Al Nassim 
Representative Mervat Abdel Azim said that the Health Committee in the House of Representatives will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the issue of female circumcision operations performed by some Sudanese expatriates.
Representative Abdel Azim explained to the “Cairo 24” website that the meeting will discuss the briefing request submitted by her and Representative Irene Saeed regarding some Sudanese expatriates performing female circumcision operations in public at home, which is a practice that is legally criminalized in Egypt.
Abdel Azim confirmed that the members of the committee noticed that some Sudanese expatriates performed these operations in exchange for a sum of money amounting to 3 thousand pounds, and the meeting is being held in the presence of officials from the Ministry of Health and Population, to discuss the necessary measures to prevent these practices and punish those responsible for them.
Article 242 of Egyptian law stipulates that “anyone who performs circumcision on a female by partially or completely removing any part of her external genital organs or inflicts injuries on those organs shall be punished with imprisonment for a period of no less than five years. If that act results in a permanent disability, the penalty shall be imprisonment.” Aggravated imprisonment for a period of no less than seven years. However, if the act leads to death, the penalty shall be aggravated imprisonment for a period of no less than ten years.
It also stipulates that the penalty shall be aggravated imprisonment for a period of no less than five years if the person who performed the circumcision referred to in the previous paragraph is a doctor or a practitioner of the nursing profession. If his crime results in a permanent disability, the penalty shall be aggravated imprisonment for a period of no less than ten years. However, if the act results in Up to death, the penalty shall be aggravated imprisonment for a period of no less than fifteen years and no more than twenty years.
The law also requires that the perpetrator of the crime, doctors and nurses, be deprived of practicing the profession for a period ranging from three to five years, close the facility in which the operation was performed, and publish the ruling in two widely circulated daily newspapers and specified websites at the expense of the convict.
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