Court hands down four suspended sentences over FGM death

A Cairo court handed down four suspended prison sentences and fines for the death of 17-year-old Mayar Mohamed Moussa after undergoing FGM, The Guardian reported. The sentences were criticized as lenient by legal experts. Mayar’s mother, doctor, and anesthetist were given a one-year suspended prison sentence. The doctor was fined EGP 5,000 and both Mayar’s mother and the anesthetist were given fines of EGP 1,000. The nurse, who is in hiding and has not appeared in court, was given a five-year suspended sentence and an EGP 50,000 fine, which will be reduced if she later appears court. “It is unfair and unjust and will be ineffective as it sends the wrong signal,” said Mayar’s lawyer Reda El Danbouki.