Midwife Offering Iranian Girls Fake Virginity Almost Deported from Canada Over Translation of Female Body Part!
Independent Aggregator of Iran-related News/Events, Kodoom.com: According to a recent report in National Post, the inability of a Persian-English interpreter at a refugee hearing to precisely translate the medical term for a virginity-related part of the female anatomy almost had serious repercussions for an Iranian woman claiming asylum.
Nastran Yeganeh was a licensed midwife for 25 years in Iran who said she performed "virginity restoration surgery" by stitching together a membrane that partially closes the opening of the vagina, which has traditionally been taken as a mark of virginity. After conducting the taboo surgery in 2016, her work was discovered by one patient’s family, bringing death threats from an irate brother, she said. Allegedly facing the death penalty after the patient’s family complained to authorities, she sought refugee protection in Canada.
An adjudicator with the Immigration and Refugee Board, in an attempt to gauge her credibility, asked at her hearing what the "technical, anatomical term" for the membrane was, looking for her to identify it as the hymen. Testifying in Farsi through an interpreter, the word "hymen" was not spoken. Instead, according to a transcript of the hearing, the interpreter used the words "virginity curtain," simply a literal translation of the Farsi words for the hymen.
The IRB rejected Yeganeh’s claim for refugee protection, saying her inability to properly use the word hymen was evidence her entire story was fabricated.
Yeganeh's appeal to the Federal Court of Canada overturned the decision and sends her back for a new refugee hearing. Had the IRB’s decision stood, the claimant and her daughter would have been sent back to Iran.
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