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MOHAMMED v. GONZALES

Nos. 03-70803, 03-72265.

400 F.3d 785 (2005)

Khadija MOHAMMED, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. GONZALES, Attorney General, Respondent. Khadija Ahmed Mohamed, Petitioner, v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 10, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rochelle A. Fortier Nwadibia, Esq., Privitera & Nwadibia, for the petitioner.

Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division; Emily Anne Radford, Assistant Director; Keith I. Bernstein, Joshua E. Braunstein, Office of Immigration Litigation, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the respondent.

Before REINHARDT, THOMPSON, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge.

Female genital mutilation involves the cutting and removal of all or some of a girl or a woman's external genitalia. Often performed under unsanitary conditions with rudimentary instruments, the procedure is "extremely painful" and "permanently disfigures the female genitalia ... expos[ing] the girl or woman to the risk of serious, potentially life-threatening complications...

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