(Reuters) A ban on female genital mutilation extends to cases where the ritual cutting was performed in another country prior to the perpetrator coming to Switzerland, the nation’s highest court said on Friday, upholding a Somali woman’s conviction last year.
The woman, who was not identified in Swiss Federal Tribunal documents, had two daughters circumcised in their homeland in 2013 before immigrating to Switzerland in 2015 to join family already in the European country.
She was found guilty in 2018 of female genital mutilation (FGM) by a regional Swiss court, where she received a suspended eight-month jail sentence. She appealed, arguing that the mutilation occurred in the Somali capital Mogadishu at a time when she had no ties to Switzerland.
