Sérénade Chafik
Sérénade Chafik (* 1965 in Cairo ) is an Egyptian activist for human rights with French nationality. She became famous for her struggle to immigrate her daughter from Egypt in order to save her from the threat of genital mutilation ("circumcision").
biography
Chafik's father is a director and her mother is a leftist activist. She studied in Paris, Cairo and Moscow. She was married twice, got divorced and, according to Islamic Sharia , had to leave her child with her divorced husband.
In 1999, a court ruling granted Sérénade Chafik the right to house her daughter in France for the duration of the Egyptian school holidays (three months). A bilateral agreement between France and Egypt regulates this possibility, but the Egyptian judiciary has so far refused to apply this regulation. In 2002 a French court sentenced the father in absentia to two years' imprisonment for not allowing the daughter to leave the country. In the spring of 2003, Chafik went on a hunger strike for 29 days to get the French government to get her daughter Laïla released by the Egyptian authorities. Although the Egyptian government has banned genital mutilation since 1997, this regulation continues to be ignored by the majority of the population.
Sérénade Chafik now lives in France, has three sons there - in addition to her daughter Laïla in Egypt - and works in adult education.
swell
- ^ "Lettre ouverte à Monsieur le Président de la République" ( Memento of May 30, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Sérénade Chafik: Give me back my child! an Egyptian mother fights for her daughter. Heyne Verlag , Munich 2004, ISBN 3-453-64502-2
Web links
- Homepage of Sérénade Chafik for her daughter (French)
- Support campaign ( memento of May 30, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) during Chafik's hunger strike in 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chafik, Sérénade |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cairo |