There is pressure on the West German Government to stop the practice of castrating the sexual offenders .
I do not understand why this has to be stopped.
Human Rights activists normally intervene in these types of instances and whenever law enforcing Agencies try to curb crimes which are heinous.
If these Agencies do not resort to strict measures, the very fabric of society will be torn.
If the law enforcing agencies do not check crime, then people accuse them of soft approach and dereliction of Duty.
You can not ask the law enforcing agencies to work with both hands and feet tied.
Normal precautions are taken for normal individuals.
People as these are not Human beings and are to be treated as such.
At times like these, Islamic law, though looks barbarous, is the Best.
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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.
“Surgical castration of detained sexual offenders could easily be considered as amounting to degrading treatment,” said the report.
“Therefore, the Committee recommends that immediate steps be taken by the relevant authorities to discontinue in all German Laender (federal states) the application of surgical castration in the context of treatment of sexual offenders,” it added.
The German government said in an official response to the report that the practice was under review but it believed there were medical grounds for continuing to offer the operation.
Under German regulations, a sex offender can be castrated if he ask for the procedure, is older than 25 and gets the approval of a panel of experts.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/22/us-germany-castration-idUSTRE81L18G20120222
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