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Thousands demand release of immigrant convicted of mutilation

Thousands demand release of immigrant convicted of mutilation

The Associated Press - ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia

About 2,000 people demonstrated on Saturday in the capital to demand the release of an Ethiopian immigrant convicted of the genital mutilation of his 2-year-old daughter and sentenced to 10 years in prison in Georgia....
The couple divorced in 2003 and Khalid's attorney Mark Hill suggested during the trial that the couple's daughter was coached to testify against her father by her mother, who has full custody of the child.

"His trial was not fair ... how is it that Fortunate (Khalid's ex-wife) did not notice that her own daughter had been circumcised for almost two years? How is that possible? She only told the police when they got the divorce to hurt him _ to get back at him," Adel Adem, Khalid's brother, told The Associated Press before the demonstration.

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