SINGAPORE – The country’s top court heard challenges to its colonial-era gay sex law for the first time since similar legislation was scrapped in India last year.
The initial hearing of the cases was held on Wednesday and will continue over the next few weeks.
Three activists urged that Section 377A – a rarely-used law under which a man found to have committed an act of “gross indecency” with another man could be jailed for up to two years – is unconstitutional, according to their lawyers and local media reports.
The law does not apply to lesbians.(Reuters)