(Portugal News) Rugui Djaló, a Guinean citizen residing in Portugal, was sentenced on 8 January, at the Sintra Court, to a three-year prison term for the crime of genital mutilation of her daughter.
The presiding judge of the collective announced that “there is no doubt that the practices [in trial] integrate the crime of female genital mutilation” and recalled that this practice is “a flagrant violation of human rights.”
The judge also highlighted the “high illegality, she is a mother who attacks her own daughter,” the “premeditation” of an organised trip to Guinea and the failure in the “duties of care” for the daughter.
The court also found that, given that “she showed no regrets,” it raised the possibility of recurrence in the future.
