Couple held in Denmark for circumcising daughters: police

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COPENHAGEN (AFP) — Police in Denmark said Thursday they had arrested a Danish couple of Sudanese origin suspected of having had two of their young daughters circumcised in Sudan.

The 49-year-old husband and 40-year-old wife were arrested after Danish social services alerted police to the fact that medical examinations indicated two of their three daughters, aged nine and 11, had been circumcised.

In statements to police, the two girls said they had been circumcised in Sudan in 2003.

The pair, who denied all wrong-doing, was also accused of having planned to take their third daughter, aged five, to the African country to be circumcised as well.

In a closed-door hearing, a Danish judge remanded the couple in custody for eight days, on suspicion they...