The 96-Year-Old Who Defied a Ban on Female Genital Cutting

By Ruth Maclean, Matty Jobe and Kiana Hayeri from NYT World https://ift.tt/Bot70Lk
via IFTTT Yassin Fatty, a traditional practitioner of female genital cutting in the West African nation of Gambia, became the first to be convicted there. But her case led to a backlash and a popular campaign to make it legal again.