Sierra Leonean police have released a
woman accused of female genital mutilation following pressure from a
powerful society of circumcisers.
Elsie Kondoromoh was
"tentatively" released after a large number of cutters protested against
her arrest, police inspector Marty Tarawallie said. Stick-wielding cutters have also protested at a hospital where her alleged victim is being treated.
Female circumcision is currently banned in Sierra Leone.
The ban came in force following the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the region in December 2013, killing some 11,000 people.
But female circumcision, which traditionalists see as a passage to womanhood, has been revived in recent months, reports the BBC's Umaru Fofana from the eastern region of Kenema, where the incident happened.
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