Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Vo Van Hoan met with visiting Vice President of the Thai Senate Supachai Somcharoen on September 20.
The Thai Senate approved a bill that would allow recidivist sex offenders to choose chemical castration in exchange for a reduction in their prison terms.
The Bangkok Post reported that the Thai Senate passed the bill allowing the chemical castration for sex offenders.
With just two abstentions, the bill received the support of 145 senators and now needs to be approved by the house for receiving the royal endorsement.
According to corrections department figures, there were 4,848 who re-offended out of the 16,413 convicted sex offenders released from Thai prisons between 2013 and 2020.
Under the new Thailand bill, medication can be prescribed only with the approval of a psychiatric specialist and an internal medicine specialist, and with the consent of the sex offender in question.