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'THIS IS HISTORIC': MALAYSIAN MAN WS APPEAL AGAST ISLAMIC GAY SEX CHARGE
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A Malaysian man has won a landmark urt challenge agast an Islamic ban on sex “agast the orr of nature”, raisg hop for greater acceptance of gay rights the mostly Mlim a unanimo cisn, Malaysia’s top urt led on Thursday that the Islamic provisn ed agast the man was unnstutnal and thori had no power to enact the law.
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This is monumental for LGBT+ rights Malaysia, ” said Numan Afifi, the founr of LGBT+ rights group Pelangi Campaign, which was not volved the Mlim man his 30s – whose name has been whheld by his lawyer to protect him – filed the lawsu after he was arrted the central Selangor state 2018 for attemptg gay sex, an allegatn he acts are illegal Malaysia, although nvictns are rare. The untry, which has 13 stat, has a dual-track legal system, wh Islamic crimal and fay laws applible to Mlims nng alongsi civil advot say Islamic laws have been creasgly ed to target the south-east Asian untry’s gay muny, wh a rise arrts and punishments rangg om ng to hoped Selangor would immediately repeal the Islamic ban, wh other stat followg su. Dpe the lg, gay Malaysian men still face up to 20 years jail unr a Brish lonial-era law banng gay sex, known as Sectn 377.
Of urse Sectn 377 is still there – ’s not the end but this is a begng, ” Numan Malaysia, a untry of 32 ln where 60% of the populatn is Mlim, many gay people are not open about their man who lnched the legal challenge argued Selangor had no power to enforce an Islamic ban on “terurse agast the orr of nature” when gay sex was already a crime unr civil urt agreed, clarg that the state’s power to enact such offenc “is subject to a nstutnal lim”, the chief jtice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat wrote the Selangor Islamic Relig Council, a rponnt the su, did not immediately rpond to a requt for man volved the legal challenge was among 11 men arrted on spicn of attemptg gay sex durg a raid at a private of the group plead guilty, and were sentenced 2019 to jail, ng and f, sparkg outrage among human rights activists who said created an environment of fear for LGBT+ women were ned for “attemptg lbian sex” unr Islamic laws the east ast state of Terengganu 2018, the same year that saw a transgenr woman attacked. Homosexualy is a crime Mlim-majory Malaysia, and has jailed or ned people om the LGBTQ muny.