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Castration for Sex Offenders Triumphs

Written By: Pavol Stracansky/ipsnews

Posted Date: 1/23/2012 11:22:46 AM

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The Czech government has defied calls from international human rights groups to stop the "degrading" practice of surgically castrating sex offenders.

Announcing a raft of new health care legislation earlier this month, Prime Minister Petr Necas said the government would not be putting an end to the controversial practice, defending castration as an efficient method of stopping recidivism among sexual offenders.

But rights groups have questioned the move and even the government’s own human rights commissioner has said the practice is a throwback to out of date thinking on criminal punishments and leaves the Czech Republic out of step with the rest of Europe.

"Other methods of treatment are given preference all over Europe. We consider it normal to castrate an offender and then it’s dealt with. But that is going back in time, like an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

"If an offender is free, they can happily undergo castration, but it should not be part of treatment," Monika Simunkova, the Czech Commissioner for Human Rights, told local media.

The Czech Republic is one of the few European countries which retains the practice of surgical castration for sex offenders. The process involves the removal of tissue in the testes which produces testosterone.

It is either banned or no longer practised in all European countries except Germany where it is carried out only in rare, and strictly controlled cases.

According to official figures, 85 people underwent surgical castration in the Czech Republic between 2000 and 2011.

The practice has previously drawn strong criticism from rights groups, most notably from the Council of Europe.

It has claimed that although Czech law states that written consent is needed from an offender confirming that they are undergoing the procedure voluntarily, some prisoners had given consent without being aware of what they were agreeing to or because they were afraid of receiving longer sentences if they did not.

In reports in 2009 and 2010 the Council described surgical castration as "degrading", "medically unnecessary", "invasive, irreversible and mutilating" and that the reluctance of the Czech authorities to replace the practice "by other forms of intervention is disappointing and disturbing."

It called for a moratorium on surgical castrations pending their final abolition.

When contacted by IPS, Patrick

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