SINGAPORE: A senior Singapore diplomat has urged the country’s gay community to challenge a law banning homosexual sex after India’s top court stuck down similar legislation, a rare high-level intervention on the issue.
Tommy Koh, ambassador-at-large in the Singapore foreign ministry, made the comments on Facebook yesterday in response to a post about Thursday’s historic ruling, which followed a decades-long campaign against the law in the South Asian nation.
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