CAIRO — A court on Monday handed down what officials said was Egypt’s first criminal conviction for the practice of female genital mutilation, sentencing a doctor to more than two years of hard labor for committing manslaughter while performing the procedure on a 13-year-old girl.
Female genital mutilation, usually a process of fully or partly removing the clitoris, was outlawed here in 2008, but remains widespread and widely accepted. More than 90 percent of Egyptian females between the ages of 15 and 49 have been subjected to the procedure, according to Unicef.
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A version of this article appears in print on January 27, 2015, on page A9 of the New York edition with the headline: Egyptian Is Convicted of Genital Mutilation. Order Reprints| Today’s Paper|Subscribe
