{"id":159783,"date":"2012-02-08T14:06:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T10:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=159783"},"modified":"2012-02-08T14:06:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T10:06:25","slug":"chemical-castration-life-sentences-russias-duma-toughens-law-against-child-sex-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/02\/08\/chemical-castration-life-sentences-russias-duma-toughens-law-against-child-sex-offenders.html","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Castration, Life Sentences: Russia&#8217;s Duma Toughens Law Against Child Sex Offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament, has passed a law which increases penalties for child sex offenders after its third and final reading on Tuesday, the <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/english.ruvr.ru\/2012\/02\/07\/65554977.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Voice of Russia<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Among other provisions, the new law abolishes suspended or deferred sentences for child rapists.<\/p>\n<p>The new law also envisages compulsory medical treatment such as chemical castration, as well as 15-\u00a0to 20-year sentences for sexual crimes against children and a life sentence for repeated offenders or in cases where the victim is a child under the age of 12.<\/p>\n<p>The penalties for those circulating child pornography will also be toughened.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament, has passed a law which increases penalties for child sex offenders after its third and&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[37891,37894,37893,24841,10254,37892,35288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}