SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's high court upheld on Monday a rarely-used law that criminalises 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.
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