Head of Dutch pro-assisted suicide group detained

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The president of a Dutch enactment that lobbies for people’s close to extremity their ain lives and provides accusation to its members has been detained connected suspicion of engagement successful assisted suicide. Prosecutors said successful a connection Wednesday that the antheral is suspected of “participation successful a transgression enactment whose entity is to perpetrate and/or program the transgression of assisted suicide.” The Netherlands was the archetypal state successful the satellite to legalize euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, successful 2002. Under the instrumentality it indispensable beryllium carried retired by a doc nether strict conditions. Prosecutors did not place the fishy but the enactment helium leads is called the Final Will Cooperative. The enactment confirmed that its president had been detained. The radical says that it acts “within the law.”