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NewsFemale circumcision 'was not persecution'Thursday 16th June 2005The Tuesday Law report by barrister Kate O'Hanlon in the Independent on 14 June 2005 records the judgement by the UK Immigration Appeal Tribunal that female circumcision was clearly accepted by the majority of the population of Sierra Leone and that the applicant could avoid discrimination by submitting to circumcision. "Far from ostracism by society and discrimination by the state in its failure to protect human rights, the persecution in the present case would result in full acceptance by Sierra Leonean society of those young women who underwent the practice into adulthood, fit for marriage and to take full part as women in the life of their communities", writes Hanlon. |
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