SINGAPORE - An activist for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, who is a retired general practitioner, has filed a new court challenge against Section 377A of the Penal Code, a law that criminalises sex between men, arguing that it is unconstitutional.
He is represented by lawyer M. Ravi from Carson Law Chambers, who filed the case in the High Court last Friday .In court documents seen by The Straits Times Dr Tan stated that Section 377A is inconsistent with Article 9 of the Constitution, which states that no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty save in accordance with law.
He added that this is incongruous with Section 14 of the Criminal Procedure Code which requires the police to unconditionally investigate all complaints of suspected arrestable offences. "It represents not only a contradiction between the Public Prosecutor's prosecutorial discretion and the non-discretionary carriage of criminal justice on the ground but is also a restriction on their personal liberty, which is not consistent with Article 9 of the Constitution."
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