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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 ...
Section 377 is a British colonial penal code that criminalized all sexual acts "against the order of nature". The law was used to prosecute people engaging in oral and anal sex along with homosexual activity.
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.
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 ...
Aug 21, 2022 · The court, led by Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, ruled that Section 377A would remain on the books, but cannot be used to criminalise gay sex - going further than the Government's earlier...
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...
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.
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...
Aug 23, 2022 · Singapore kept Sections 377 and 377A after independence in 1965, but the Government repealed Section 377 in 2007 after a comprehensive review of the Penal Code.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.
