A recent Egyptian Organisation for
Human Rights (EOHR) report on
female circumcision in state hospitals
has incensed Egyptian human rights
groups, who have launched a vociferous "No!" campaign. Egypt's NGOs
have called upon health minister Ali
Abdel-Fattah to revoke his decision to
allow hospitals to perform female circumcisions. The EOHR has also sued a
top Egyptian religious scholar for publicly supporting the practice, demanding that he pay 500,000 Egyptian pounds to the population ministry,
which is also participating in the campaign to eradicate the practice.