The ordinance will create a national sex offenders register, protect the identity of victims and allow the chemical castration of some offenders.
In 2020, Pakistani president Arif Alvi had signed a new anti-rape measure aiming to speed up convictions and toughen sentences. People do not report it due to being scared or ashamed, women are ashamed, no one wants to tell," Imran Khan had said in 2020, as reported by CNN. You do not know the real statistics as well, because it's under-reported. Rapists and child molesters should have public hangings. "I think he (the rapist) should be hanged publicly. In an interview last year, Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan said though he believes that rapists should be hanged publicly, it would not be an internationally accepted process and hence Pakistan was considering chemical castration. The rationale behind using castration as punishment for sex offenders in the contemporary context, according to Smith is that reduced testosterone would lead to reduced libido and therefore reduced ‘deviant sexual activity'. Merill D Smith observes in Encyclopaedia of Rape that castration was an “eye-to-eye style punishment” in Rome and had historically been used in India as a sentence for rape and adultery and also notes that castration in the religious context is “fairly common.” It is a legal form of punishment in countries including South Korea, Poland, the Czech Republic and in some states in the US, according to media reports.Ĭritics say fewer than four percent of sexual assault or rape cases in Pakistan result in a conviction.Ĭhemical castration reduces offenders’ testosterone levels and the sex drive is lowered with the help of drugs.Īccording to Jodi O’ Brien, author of Encyclopaedia of Gender and Society, throughout history, chemical castration has had cultural, moral and punitive significance. He said a rapist should be hanged publicly, but there was no mention of castration in Sharia.Ĭhemical castration is the use of drugs to reduce sexual activity. Jamaat-i-Islami Senator Mushtaq Ahmed protested over the bill and termed it un-Islamic and against Sharia. "Chemical castration is a process duly notified by rules framed by the prime minister, whereby a person is rendered incapable of performing sexual intercourse for any period of his life, as may be determined by the court through administration of drugs which shall be conducted through a notified medical board," according to the bill.
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It seeks to amend the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860, and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, the Dawn newspaper reported. The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2021 bill was passed along with 33 other bills by the joint session of parliament on Wednesday. The passage of the bill comes almost a year after President Arif Alvi approved the new anti-rape ordinance that was cleared by the Pakistan Cabinet, calling for the chemical castration of rapists with the consent of the convict and setting up of special courts for speedy trails. The bill is a response to a public outcry against a recent spike in incidents of rape of women and children in the country and growing demands for effectively curbing the crime. Sex offenders convicted of multiple rapes in Pakistan could face chemical castration after parliament passed a new legislation that aims to speed up convictions and impose tougher sentences.