A Londoner who suffered female genital mutilation has warned that political correctness is hampering the fight to stamp it out after asking people to sign a fake petition in its favour.
Leyla Hussein, 32, said many were scared to speak out against FGM because they were worried about criticising another culture.
Under the charges filed by the federal Investigative Committee, Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg face up to ten years jail. clearance asics shoes In a separate case, a Russian court handed Navalny, 37, a suspended five-year sentence for theft last month.
“I understand the logic of the authorities. They try to show everyone that if they do something not quite as they want, then we will terrorise you,” he told Ekho Moskvy radio.
She added: “FGM is not culture, it is violence. Stop using the culture word. This is happening to children. We are human beings, we can’t watch children being cut, I don’t care what culture you belong to.”
Investigators accused the Navalny brothers of defrauding a Russian filial of French cosmetics firm Yves Rocher out of 26 million roubles ($814,600) and a cargo delivery firm, the Glavnoye Podpisnoye Agentstvo, out of 4 million roubles. asics t189n The Russian arm of Yves Rocher was not immediatelly available for comment. Russia is a major market for the French company.
It also highlights the impact that articles published in the Evening Standard have had on the fight against FGM. More than 66,000 women in the UK have already undergone FGM and about 24,000 girls are at risk.
“This is our first major case with involves terrorism and treason under the new democratic dispensation,” asics t264n he said, meaning the laws of post-apartheid South Africa.
The guilty include former engineers, medical doctors and military officers.
More than 150 witnesses were called in the trial that also saw dozens of postponements and numerous legal wrangles, including applications about the jail conditions. Two members of the bomb squad, Herman van Rooyen and Rudi Gouws, asics t356n escaped while on trial in 2006 but were recaptured in 2007.
In an interview with the Evening Standard she said: “Because of that caution, bizarrely we’ve ended up protecting these vulnerable girls the least.” Ms Ellison condemned FGM as child abuse and said she was determined to end decades of failure to protect women.
The Cruel Cut will be shown on Channel 4 on Wednesday, November 6 at 10.45pm.
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