UK court overturns Trinidad and Tobago law criminalising gay sex

Trinidad ⁠and Tobago’s law criminalising ⁠consensual sexual relations between ⁠male same-sex couples was overturned by a London court on Tuesday, after a legal challenge by a gay man who said the law breached his human rights.
Jason Jones challenged the Caribbean nation’s ‌Sexual Offences Act – which made “buggery” and “gross indecency” illegal – as breaching his fundamental rights under the country’s constitution.
London’s Privy Council, the final court of appeal for Trinidad and Tobago, ruled…



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