Convicted paedophiles will be injected under the supervision of health officials

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The forcible castration is punishment for being found guilty of a paedophile attack in April 2016.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev has allocated £20,500 for some 2,000 injections on men who commit child sex attacks this year.

Deputy health minister Lyazat Aktayeva said: “At the moment there has been one request for chemical castration in accordance with a court ruling.”

The identity off the man has not been revealed.

Kazakhstan introduced a new law on chemical castration at the start of this year.