AntiCircDocumented and verified reports of circumcision harm worldwide.
This registry records individual cases from press reports, official records, academic studies, and verified submissions. These are documented cases, not measured complication rates or country aggregates.
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Cases are compiled from named reporting, official records, and verified datasets — reviewed and published by our team, not open submission.
Read our methodologyMay 8, 2026
South Africa
At least 24 young men died in the most recent Eastern Cape season; hundreds were rescued from illegal initiation schools.
Jun 20, 2025
Philippines
An 11-year-old reportedly collapsed and died after a second anaesthesia shot during circumcision in Mulanay, Quezon; a medico-legal examiner was said to have noted the injection “didn’t seem right.”
May 17, 2025
Philippines
A 10-year-old (Nathan) was given ~20cc of anaesthetic by a licensed MIDWIFE posing as a doctor at a Balut, Tondo lying-in clinic on 17 May 2025; he convulsed, his skin darkened and he died. Police autopsy: subarachnoid haemorrhage, possibly from the anaesthesia.
Apr 25, 2025
United States
A newborn nearly bled to death after a hospital circumcision; parents described multiple surgeries, transfusions, and alleged organ and brain injury.
2025
Vietnam
A 21-year-old Hanoi man required emergency surgery at Hospital E after a barber acquaintance performed an at-home circumcision with equipment of unknown origin and no antibiotics or monitoring; by day 5 he had severe swelling, hematoma, widespread bruising, ruptured sutures and tissue necrosis.
Jan 1, 2025
United Kingdom
In January 2025 Mohammed Siddique, a former doctor, was jailed for child cruelty and causing grievous bodily harm after performing an unconsented circumcision on a six-month-old boy. The court described the act as a "gratuitous infliction of pain" and a "deliberate disregard for the welfare of the child." The case was directly cited in the Crown Prosecution Service's Honour-Based Abuse guidance (March 2026) as context for classifying circumcision as potentially harmful.
Jan 1, 2025
Somalia
A 6-year-old boy from Shaan Town, Middle Shabelle (~20 km from Jowhar), developed wound infection, urinary retention, tissue necrosis, and penile discharge 15 days after a traditional circumcision by an untrained practitioner using non-sterile, rudimentary equipment. The procedure was performed on four children simultaneously without equipment sterilisation between cases. The patient was referred to Dr. Sumait Hospital (tertiary, Mogadishu) on day 4 of rural admission, underwent surgical debridement under general anaesthesia, and made a full recovery at one-month follow-up. Published in International Medical Case Reports Journal (peer-reviewed), 2025.
Dec 2024
Uganda
On 11 December 2024 an unapproved traditional circumciser severed the glans of a boy's penis during an imbalu circumcision in Bukokho Sub-County, Namisindwa district; the boy was hospitalised in critical condition at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital and the cutter was arrested.