{"id":59437,"date":"2023-10-26T20:29:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T11:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/26\/south-korea-upholds-controversial-military-sodomy-law-for-fourth-time"},"modified":"2023-10-26T20:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T11:29:16","slug":"dismay-as-south-korea-upholds-military-sodomy-law-for-fourth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59437","title":{"rendered":"Dismay as South Korea upholds military \u2018sodomy law\u2019 for fourth time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activists deplore \u2018distressing setback for equality\u2019 as court backs law against \u2018indecent acts\u2019 between military personnel <\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s constitutional court has upheld two anti-LGBTQ+ laws including the country\u2019s notorious military \u201csodomy law\u201d for the fourth time, in a ruling activists are calling a setback for equality rights.<\/p>\n<p>The court, in a five-to-four vote, ruled that article 92-6 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/elaw.klri.re.kr\/eng_service\/lawView.do?hseq=40239&amp;lang\">military criminal act<\/a>, which prescribes a maximum prison term of two years for \u201canal intercourse\u201d and \u201cany other indecent acts\u201d between military personnel, even while on leave and consensual, was constitutional in response to several petitions challenging the law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/26\/south-korea-upholds-controversial-military-sodomy-law-for-fourth-time\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists deplore \u2018distressing setback for equality\u2019 as court backs law against \u2018indecent acts\u2019 between military personnel South Korea\u2019s constitutional court has upheld two anti-LGBTQ+ laws including the country\u2019s notorious military \u201csodomy law\u201d for th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2929,"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":[41,53,86,2729,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-human-rights","category-law","category-lgbtq-rights","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\/59437","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\/2929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59438,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59437\/revisions\/59438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}