Chemical castration

Pakistan will now chemically castrate convicted rapists after new laws were signed in by the government recently.

The country has brought in tough new laws seeking to tackle the rape epidemic in Pakistan following public outcry against sexual violence in the country.

The Turkish government submitted a new draft law to parliament on April 9 to hand down harsher sentences to those convicted of sex offences against children, proposing to increase jail terms to 40 years and introduce chemical castration for such offenses.

Justice Miniser Abdulhamit Gül has said that the chemical castration procedure, which the government is considering to introduce for child abusers, is not planning to be used on all of the offenders, but instead will be left to the discretion of the judge overlooking the case, Hurriyet writes.

Justice Miniser Abdulhamit Gül has said that the chemical castration procedure, which the government is considering to introduce for child abusers, is not planning to be used on all of the offenders, but instead will be left to the discretion of the judge overlooking the case.

The Romanian parliament is set to debate a bill on 'chemical castration' for sex offenders again, after a police officer was prosecuted for several assaults on minors. 

Romania's parliament is to again debate 'chemical castration' as an optional sentence for sex offenders after a police officer was caught on camera assaulting two children in January.

The number of convicts on probation reached 353,749 as of July 31, as the authorities try to open up space in prisons for the rising number of jailed Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) suspects, according to figures released by the Justice Ministry.

Turkey's Council of State has stopped the execution of a regulation on chemical castration, which was introduced last year against sex offenders, on the grounds that it can "lead to hard-to-recover and unrepairable damages."

Thousands of British men sentenced for homosexuality before it was decriminalised will be pardoned under the Turing Law, named after the famous scientist in the 1940's Alan Turing, announced the government in London, cited by BGNES.

The head of Macedonia's Directorate of Sanctions, the office in charge of prisons, Lidija Gavrilovska, said they were pondering building a separate prison for paedophiles - after checking to see whether this would be in line with European Union standards.

BELGRADE - Dusan Milisavljevic, MP of the Democratic Party (DS), stated on Tuesday that he has submitted a draft amendment to the criminal law proposing to introduce medical treatment for pedophiles and serial rapists.