TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan’s constitutional court on Friday decriminalised adultery in a landmark judgment aimed at upholding personal rights and privacy, scrapping a law that activists said discriminated against women.
The democratic island became the latest place in Asia to strike down a ban on marital infidelity following South Korea in 2015 and India in 2018.
The constitutional court struck down the adultery law that meant those who had sex with a married person, or with a person outside marriage, could face up to a year in jail.
“The adultery law offers limited help to maintaining marriage relationships ... State power interfering in people’s marriages actually has a negative impact on marriage,” Lin Hui-Huang, secretary-general of the Justice Ministry, said as he read out the judgment.
The adultery law was a violation of a person’s sexual autonomy as well as a “serious invasion of privacy”, he said.
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