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Jan 4, 2023 · SINGAPORE – Section 377A, a decades-old law criminalising gay sex, has officially been struck off the books, after President Halimah Yacob assented on Dec 27 to the Bill that proposed the...
Aug 21, 2022 · Singapore is the latest place in Asia to move on LGBT rights, after India, Taiwan and Thailand. The government's previous stance was to keep 377A - which bans sex between men - but it also ...
Penal Code 1871. Long Title. 1 Short title 2 Punishment of offences committed within Singapore 3 Punishment of offences committed beyond, but which by law may be tried within Singapore 4 Jurisdiction over public servants for offences committed outside Singapore 4A Offences against State and genocide committed outside Singapore by citizen or ...
In November 2003, a police coast guard officer, Annis Abdullah, was convicted under Section 377 of the Penal Code for having oral sex with a teenage girl, although the act was consensual.
Nov 28, 2022 · Section 377A of the Penal Code is a colonial-era law that penalised sex between men, while marriage is defined under Section 12 of the Women’s Charter as being between a man and a woman.
As per a Supreme Court Judgement since 2018, the Indian Penal Code Section 377 is used to convict non-consensual sexual activities among homosexuals with a minimum of ten years’ imprisonment extended to life imprisonment. It has been used to criminalize third gender people, such as the apwint in Myanmar. [1]
Aug 23, 2022 · Singapore kept Sections 377 and 377A after independence in 1965, but the Government repealed Section 377 in 2007 after a comprehensive review of the Penal Code.
Jun 28, 2021 · Created by the British, 377 has had a widespread damaging effect in former colonies, say activists.
Aug 22, 2022 · SINGAPORE - Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said during the National Day Rally on Sunday (Aug 21) that Singapore will do away with Section 377A of the Penal Code that criminalises sex between men.
Aug 19, 2022 · As Singapore considers its next steps for Section 377A of the Penal Code which criminalises sex between men, CNA looks at the history of the legislation inherited from the British penal system...
