SINGAPORE — Singapore’s high court upheld on Monday a rarely-used law that criminalizes sex between men, dismissing three appeals that argued it was unconstitutional.
The ruling follows challenges to the colonial-era law by activists emboldened after India’s decision to scrap similar legislation in 2018.
Previous repeal efforts in the socially conservative city-state in 2014 also failed. “The High Court dismisses all three applications,” Judge See Kee Oon said in a summary of the case published