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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on 9 September 2018, [ 23 ] a movement known as Ready4Repeal launched a petition to campaign for Section 377A to be repealed, even though MHA and Ministry of Law said there were no plans ...
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 377A of the Singapore Penal Code are effectively identical, as both were put in place by the British Empire, raising hopes in Singapore that the discriminatory law would be struck down as well. [32] Singapore's High Court gave the petitioner until 20 November to submit his arguments. [39] [40] [37]
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 ...
It was debated in the Parliament on 28 November along with a bill repealing Section 377A, and passed on 29 November 2022. [9] The law was signed by President Halimah Yacob on 27 December 2022 and published in the Republic of Singapore Government Gazette on 6 January 2023. [10]
The incident sparked controversy and intensified conversations on LGBTQ+ discrimination in Singapore due to Section 377A of the Penal Code. Simon's speech was supposed to occur on the same day as Singapore's only pride gathering, the annual Pink Dot festival, where celebrations are contained to one area of the city. [7]
Tan was charged under Section 377A in 2010, despite the Singapore government stating in parliament that they would no longer prosecute citizens under the law. After years of proceedings, the Court of Appeal ruled that Section 377A was not unconstitutional. The case was described by The Guardian as a "milestone in the struggle against Section 377A".
In Singapore, a similar law called Section 377A of the Singapore Penal Code was introduced in 1938 by the colonial government that had also criminalized sex between men. In 2022, then Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had announced that the provision would be repealed.
The law was inherited into Singapore in 1871, with 377A introduced into the Penal Code in 1938. In October 2007, during a Penal Code review, Singapore repealed Section 377 of the Penal Code, but 377A remained on the books as an unenforced law. [90] On 29 November 2022, the Parliament of Singapore voted to repeal Section 377A in its entirety. [91]