{"id":43757,"date":"2022-04-22T09:15:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T00:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/22\/south-koreas-highest-court-overturns-military-convictions-of-two-gay-soldiers"},"modified":"2022-04-22T09:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T00:15:59","slug":"south-koreas-highest-court-overturns-military-convictions-of-two-gay-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43757","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s highest court overturns military convictions of two gay soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court rules long-criticised military sodomy law shouldn\u2019t apply to consensual sex off base in off-duty hours<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s 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\u2019s widely criticised military sodomy law.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s decision on Thursday to send the case back to the high court for armed forces was welcomed by human rights advocates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/may\/04\/south-korea-must-end-gay-soldier-witch-hunt-campaigners-say\">who had long protested<\/a> the country\u2019s 1962 military criminal act\u2019s article 92-6, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/15\/south-korea-says-consensual-sex-act-between-male-soldiers-bordered-on\">which prohibits same-sex conduct <\/a>among soldiers in the country\u2019s predominantly male military.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/22\/south-koreas-highest-court-overturns-military-convictions-of-two-gay-soldiers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court rules long-criticised military sodomy law shouldn\u2019t apply to consensual sex off base in off-duty hoursSouth Korea\u2019s supreme court has thrown out a military court ruling that convicted two gay soldiers for having sex outside their military facilit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,53,86,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-human-rights","category-law","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43758,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43757\/revisions\/43758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}