SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's top court overturned on Thursday a 2019 military court conviction of two soldiers sentenced to suspended prison terms for a same-sex relationship, in a ruling hailed by a rights group as a milestone step against a much-criticised law.
The Supreme Court said the conviction by the military court did not take into account whether the defendants' relations, which took place in a personal space, were consensual, and thus excessively restricting their right to sexual self-determination.
