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Germany urged to halt castration of sex offenders
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Germany_urged_to_halt_castration_of_sex_offenders.html?cid=32169648Feb 22, 2012 - 17:30 Germany urged to halt castration of sex offenders
STRASBOURG (Reuters) - Germany should stop the practice of surgically castrating sex offenders, the anti-torture panel at Europe's top human rights watchdog said on Wednesday.
Under German law, serious sex offenders can volunteer for the operation as part of their treatment.
The Strasbourg Council of Europe's anti-torture committee said the procedure was rare in Germany, with fewer than five cases a year over the past decade.
But surgical castration was mutilating and irreversible and there was no evidence it prevented men from committing new sex crimes, the committee said in a report on Germany.
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