A Malaysian man on Thursday 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 untry.
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- MALAYSIAN MAN WS LANDMARK CHALLENGE AGAST MLIM GAY SEX BAN
- THE VIRAL GAY SEX TAPE BETWEEN AN ALLEGED MALAYSIAN MISTER AND AN OFFICIAL
MALAYSIAN MAN WS LANDMARK CHALLENGE AGAST MLIM GAY SEX BAN
KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - A Malaysian man on Thursday 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 Mlim man his 30s - whose name has been whheld by his lawyer to protect his privacy - filed the lawsu after he was arrted the central Selangor state 2018 for attemptg gay sex, which 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 Southeast Asian untry’s gay muny, wh a rise arrts and punishments rangg om ng to a unanimo cisn, Malaysia’s top urt led on Thursday that the Islamic provisn ed Selangor was unnstutnal and thori had no power to enact the law.
THE VIRAL GAY SEX TAPE BETWEEN AN ALLEGED MALAYSIAN MISTER AND AN OFFICIAL
Dpe the lg, gay Malaysian men still face up to 20 years jail unr a Brish lonial-era law that bans gay sex, known as Sectn 377. Of urse Sectn 377 is still there - ’s not the end but this is a begng, ” Numan told the Thomson Rters 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 that 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 to jail, ng and f 2019, 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.