The ECHR received a complaint about the forced “female circumcision” of an 11-year-old Russian woman 
the first complaint from Russia about forced “female genital mutilation” in a child. The Kommersant newspaper writes about this.
Lawyers of the Legal Initiative project ( performs the function of a foreign agent ) applied to Strasbourg in the interests of an 11-year-old Russian woman, whom doctors in Ingushetia performed a clitorectomy on father's requirement in 2019.
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According to the complaint received, in Russia there is no legal protection for children in such cases. Such operations, according to Russian laws, can be qualified as minor harm to health. A pediatric gynecologist who performed a clitorectomy on a child faces a fine of up to 40 thousand or arrest for up to four months. The case against the gynecologist was initiated in 2019, the lawyers demanded criminal prosecution, but they were refused due to the lack of corpus delicti.
The accused doctor stated that he was correcting the pathology for medical reasons.
” In the complaint to the ECHR, we point out that we have claims not so much against the investigation, but against the state, which is not able to provide children with protection from violence, to toughen the punishment for forced circumcision, “said Tatiana Savvina, a lawyer for Pravovaya Initiative.
< p> On the territory of Russia, the project annually records about 1240 such mutilation operations, in particular in Dagestan and Ingushetia.
The Ministry of Health did not comment on Kommersant's request for a complaint to the ECHR. The first deputy chairman of the Duma health protection committee Fedot Tumusov said that now it is necessary to protect doctors, since “any mistake they make is a criminal prosecution.” “Female circumcision” – but learned about it only at 42.