A German court has ruled that circumcising young boys on religious
grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm, in a landmark decision that
the Jewish community said trampled on parents' religious rights. The
case was brought against a doctor in Cologne who had circumcised a
four-year-old Muslim boy on his parents' wishes. A few days after the
operation, his parents took him to hospital as he was bleeding
heavily. Prosecutors then charged the doctor with grievous bodily
harm. The doctor was acquitted by a lower court that judged he had
acted within the law as the parents had given their consent.
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