Right activists welcomed the ruling a 'new milestone' for Taiwan's reforms following the landmark legalisation of same-sex marriage last year. - AFP
TAIPEI (Reuters): Taiwan's constitutional court on Friday (May 29)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.
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