UN condemns castration for rapists in Nigeria
The law says males convicted of raping a child under the age of 14 should be surgically castrated and given the death penalty.
Nigeria governor approves law to castrate, remove fallopian tubes of child rapists
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The governor of Nigeria’s north-western Kaduna state, Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, has signed a law providing tough penalties for convicted rapists. The law provides for surgical castration and death sentence for those convicted of raping a child below the age of 14. Where the victim is over 14 years, the law provides for surgical castration and […]