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Pakistan introduces castration for rape

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January 25, 2021

Reports of rapes have soared in Pakistan, but only a tiny fraction of cases end up in court. The country recently introduced an ordinance aimed at speedier trials, but the new legislation also allows a controversial punishment: chemical castration.

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