{"id":6083,"date":"2015-01-06T17:33:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2018-03-05T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T03:50:11","slug":"belgian-serial-rapist-will-not-be-euthanized-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6083","title":{"rendered":"Belgian serial rapist will not be euthanized: minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\">Expatica (Belgium Edition)<\/p>\n<p>A serial rapist and murderer who had won the right to die under Belgium&#8217;s controversial euthanasia laws will not now be put to death following fresh medical advice, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Van Den Bleeken, who has spent 26 years in jail for repeated rapes and a rape-murder, will instead be moved from his prison in the northwestern city of Bruges to a new psychiatric treatment centre in Ghent, Justice Minister Koen Geens said.<\/p>\n<p>The Flemish-language newspaper De Morgen reported Saturday that Van Den Bleeken would be voluntarily euthanized by lethal injection in Bruges prison on January 11. 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