A watchdog group says South Korea's army is huntg down and prosecutg gay servicemen after a vio of male soldiers havg sex was posted onle.
Contents:
- IN SOUTH KOREA, GAY SOLDIERS CAN SERVE. BUT THEY MIGHT BE PROSECUTED.
- GAY AND TRANS SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE ABED SOUTH KOREAN ARY
- AFTER SEX VIO, SOUTH KOREA ACCED OF TARGETG GAY SOLDIERS
- SOUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX
- DOZENS ARRTED AS SOUTH KOREAN ARY NDUCTS ‘GAY WCH-HUNT’
IN SOUTH KOREA, GAY SOLDIERS CAN SERVE. BUT THEY MIGHT BE PROSECUTED.
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Then they seized the litenant’s smartphone, prsg him to intify gay soldiers his ntact lists. Kim is one of an creasg number of gay or transgenr soldiers who have been persecuted unr Article 92-6 of the Army Crimal Act, which has been ed to out them and punish them for nsensual sex, Amnty Internatnal said a report released on Article 92-6, “anal sex and other cent acts” between ary personnel n be punished by up to two years prison, even if they take place off base, while the soldiers are off duty and by mutual nsent.
GAY AND TRANS SOLDIERS SAY THEY WERE ABED SOUTH KOREAN ARY
The group’s report, “Servg Silence, ” also tails sexual and other ab flicted on gay soldiers, or soldiers perceived as gay, by their superrs and their fellow soldiers. All able-bodied South Korean men are required to serve for about two ary says do not bar gay and transgenr people om servg, and the Defense Mistry has expand trag on protectg the rights of sexual mori. Milary veterans have long reported discrimatn agast homosexuals the army, as well as more wispread ab like beatgs, hazg and bullyg.
Most gay soldiers have hidn their sexual orientatn for fear of beg outed and 2017, the year Mr. Lim South Korea, which has been slow to embrace the rights of sexual mori, that 2017 crackdown triggered an unual gree of recent years, gay people have bee more visible the untry. But nservative Christian groups have also lated monstratns agast homosexualy major ci, often llg gay soldiers a threat to ary groups helped to scuttle attempts Parliament to pass an anti-discrimatn law, urged on South Korea by the Uned Natns, that would give sexual mori the same protectns that other mory groups have.
Amnty Internatnal’s report scrib vivid tail how antigay attus have translated to physil and sexual abe wh the former soldier told the rights group he had been forced to have oral and anal sex wh another gay soldier, as a superr tnted, “Don’t you want to have sex wh a womanlike man?
AFTER SEX VIO, SOUTH KOREA ACCED OF TARGETG GAY SOLDIERS
After he nfid to an officer that he was gay and asked for help, his battaln manr outed him ont of his entire un, askg him, “Who did you sce last night?
”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 9 of the New York edn wh the headle: Gay Soldiers Can Serve.
Ex-South Korean soldier says he was abed for beg gay.
SOUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ISSU LANDMARK RULG ON GAY SEX
The South Korean soldier had seen another low-rankg nscript, emed effemate and spected of beg gay, beg sexually abed, beaten and forced to drk om a toilet bowl by other soldiers. In a statement to CNN, South Korea’s Defense Mistry said had polici place “to protect homosexual soldiers’ human rights and to guarantee an environment which they may serve the ary equally wh other soldiers, ” and provid specialist unselors for victims of sexual vlence and human rights ab. Dpe a ary directive passed 2009 llg for greater protectns for gay soldiers, LGBT nscripts still face spicn, harassment and prosecutn unr Article 92-6 of the Milary Crimal Act, which mak sexual activy between men punishable by up to two years prison.
DOZENS ARRTED AS SOUTH KOREAN ARY NDUCTS ‘GAY WCH-HUNT’
Gay sex is illegal the ary whether happens on or off base, and regardls of whether one party is not an enlisted soldier. In 2017, dozens of men were arrted what was scribed as a “gay wch-hunt, ” wh superrs g gay datg apps and spectns of soldiers’ phon and social media to track down LGBT nscripts. Paranoia about beg outed as gay also creat a discentive for soldiers to report abe if they believe is bee of their sexual orientatn.
Jeram and other gay soldiers who spoke to the human rights group did not give a surname for fear of repercsns. Kim was harassed by fellow soldiers who spected he was gay. “Bee if I didn’t, they were gog to ll my parents and tell them that I was gay.