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In 2018, an Ipsos survey found that 55% of Singapore residents supported retaining Section 377A. [22] Shortly after the Penal Code review report was released on 9 September 2018, [23] a movement known as Ready4Repeal launched a petition to campaign for Section 377A to be repealed, even though MHA and Ministry of Law said there were no plans to ...
On 21 August 2022, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced during the annual National Day Rally that the government intended to repeal Section 377A, effectively ending criminalisation both de facto and de jure. [30] [31] On 29 November 2022, the Parliament of Singapore passed a bill to repeal Section 377A. [32]
Tan's case was heard in the Supreme Court jointly with another appeal challenging Section 377A, and a ruling was given on 29 October 2014. The ruling upheld the country's ban on same-sex relations between consenting adult men. The court held that Section 377A does not violate Articles 9 and 12 of the Singapore Constitution.
F rustrated by inaction from lawmakers, a retired Singaporean doctor is pinning his hopes on the country's judiciary to repeal a law that can imprison men for engaging in gay sex for up to two years.
In a 72-page analysis published in the Singapore Academy of Law Journal titled "Equal Justice Under The Constitution And Section 377A Of The Penal Code, The Roads Not Taken", [88] based on a talk he gave in February at the National University of Singapore law faculty's Centre for Asian Legal Studies, former Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong said ...
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was a section of the Indian Penal Code introduced in 1861 during the British rule of India. Modeled on the Buggery Act 1533 , it made sexual activities "against the order of nature" illegal.
21 August – Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced during the annual Singapore National Day Rally that the Singapore Government will be repealing Section 377A of Singapore's penal code that criminalised sex between men. At the same time, he also announced that the government will be amending the constitution to enshrine the definition of ...
Section 377A of the Penal Code of Singapore [ edit ] In 2012, Tan Eng Hong brought a court challenge of the constitutionality of section 377A of the Penal Code of Singapore, a law dating back to the British colonial era which de jure criminalises, albeit de facto unenforced, sex between mutually consenting men.