![]() ![]() The defendants had appealed after the military high court upheld their convictions by a lower court based on article 92-6 and gave them suspended prison terms. They were among at least nine soldiers who were indicted in what critics described as the army’s aggressive crackdown on gay soldiers in 2017. The two defendants – an army lieutenant and sergeant from different units – had been charged by military prosecutors in 2017 for having sex during off-duty hours at a residence outside their bases in 2016. ![]() The court later said in a press release that the decision was meaningful as a “declaration that consensual same-sex sexual activity (among military service members) could no longer been considered as punishable in itself”. “The view that sexual activity between people of the same sex is a source of sexual humiliation and disgust for objective regular people and goes against decent moral sense can hardly be accepted as a universal and proper moral standard for our times.” “The specific ideas of what constitutes as indecency has changed accordingly with the changes in time and society,” Kim said in a decision that was broadcast online.
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