After end January the Portugese parliament approved the decriminalization of medically assisted death, Portugal’s president has now sidestepped the country’s controversial euthanasia legislation by asking
In South Africa, an atheist advocate and doctor have added their voices to a crucial legal challenge to determine whether or not euthanasia should be
This December, the New Zealand Minister of Justice Kris Faafoi responded to the plea of Professor Sean Davison to have his conviction quashed after assisting his
On December 11, 2020, the Austrian Constitutional Court (VfGH) ruled that the prohibition of “helping people to commit suicide” violates the right to self-determination. Killing on
Saturday the 21nd of November, the Belgian newspaper De Standaard reported an investigation of several cases of euthanasia which are possibly not performed according to
After last february the Ghent court of assizes acquitted three doctors for poisoning Tine Nys, the performing doctor Joris Van Hove faces a new trial
On September 24th, the Constitutional Court in Austria held a public hearing on the prohibition of participation in suicide. According to the Austrian lawyer who brought the
Begin August, in France, a 87-year-old woman was indicted and placed under judicial control, suspected of having killed her 90-year-old husband. The woman, who admitted
In Japan, the police has arrested two doctors on suspicion of killing a woman with a progressive degenerative disease at her request. Investigative sources say
At Tuesday the 21st of April, the Dutch Supreme Court handed down a judgment in a case brought ‘in the interest of the law’. In
