Decriminalization of homosexuality in Ecuador
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Decriminalization of homosexuality in Ecuador
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The decriminalization of homosexuality in Ecuador took place on November 25, 1997, when the Constitutional Tribunal issued a landmark decision in Case 111-97-TC declaring the first clause of Article 516 of the Penal Code - which criminalized same-sex sexual relations as a crime with a penalty of four to eight years of imprisonment - unconstitutional. The ruling put an end to more than one hundred years of criminalization of homosexuality and was the result of a claim filed by different LGBT grou
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decriminalization_of_homosexuality_in_Ecuador
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2023-04-08T20:11:01Z
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2024-09-02T11:22:51Z
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