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Pakistan approves chemical castration of sex offenders

Islamabad: Pakistan has approved the chemical castration of rapists as part of sweeping new legislation sparked by outcry over the gang rape of a mother on a motorway. New laws approved by President Arif Alvi on Tuesday will see rape cases expedited through the courts and create the country’s first national sex offenders register. “The provision of the chemical castration of repeat as well as first-time sex offenders. was added in the Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020”, the president’s office confirmed Wednesday. Pakistan is a deeply conservative and patriarchal nation where victims of sexual abuse often are too afraid to speak out, or where criminal complaints are frequently not investigated seriously.

Pak activists, experts term Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020 as eyewash

Pak activists, experts term Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020 as eyewash ANI | Updated: Dec 16, 2020 13:51 IST Islamabad [Pakistan], December 16 (ANI): Rights activists and constitutional experts in Pakistan termed the approved Anti-Rape Ordinance 2020 as useless and eyewash and ruled out the possibility of countering the menace through it. Such legislation is a mere eyewash as it did not help in protecting the victims, said Sadia Bokhari of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) while talking to Dawn. She added that public hanging and castration could not guarantee the end of rape cases, and pressed for effective implementation of the law that would create real deterrence for rapists.

Chemical castration of sex offenders now legal in Pakistan

Chemical castration of sex offenders now legal in Pakistan AFP Members of VCare Welfare Trust hold placards during a protest against an alleged gang rape of a woman, in Karachi on September 13, 2020.   - Hundreds of women took to streets across Pakistan on September 12 protesting gruesome gang rape of a woman in front of her two children after her car ran out of fuel near the eastern city of Lahore late on September 9. (Photo by Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP) Under the new laws, special courts will be established to try cases of rape and sexual abuse against women and children, which must be completed within four months.

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