Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Legal crackdown on 'suicide websites'/ The Independent, 17 September 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/legal-crackdown-on-suicide-websites-933469.html
Ministers are to re-write the law on so-called "suicide websites" to make it clear they are illegal, the Ministry of Justice said today. Websites which encourage teenagers to commit suicide or carry information on suicide techniques have been implicated in dozens of teenage deaths in recent years. It is already illegal under the 1961 Suicide Act to promote suicide but no website operator has been prosecuted under the Act.