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Council of Europe: Surgical Castration "Degrading"

By Corey Rayburnyung

The Council of Europe has made public a report condemning the Czech Republic's practice of surgically castrating sex offenders. You can read the report here and the response from the Czech government here. The BBC has more. From CNN:The Czech Republic's practice of surgically castrating convicted sex offenders is "invasive, irreversible and mutilating" and should stop immediately, the Council of Europe's Anti-Torture Committee said in a report made public Thursday.The central European country castrated at least 94 prisoners in the 10 years up to April 2008, when investigators from the Council of Europe, a human-rights forum, visited the Czech Republic.The Council of Europe condemned the practice as "degrading."The procedure is being performed even on first-time, non-violent offenders, such as exhibitionists, its investigation revealed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).