South Korea’s highest court overturns military convictions of two gay soldiers

South Korea’s highest court overturns military convictions of two gay soldiers

Court rules long-criticised military sodomy law shouldn’t apply to consensual sex off base in off-duty hours

South Korea’s supreme court has thrown out a military court ruling that convicted two gay soldiers for having sex outside their military facilities, saying it stretched the reading of the country’s widely criticised military sodomy law.

The court’s decision on Thursday to send the case back to the high court for armed forces was welcomed by human rights advocates, who had long protested the country’s 1962 military criminal act’s article 92-6, which prohibits same-sex conduct among soldiers in the country’s predominantly male military.

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