Three months later, the laws were repealed by the state Legislature and removed from the penal code.
Last year the government gave the nod to a workshop that looked into changing the penal code.
The mainstream moral values of Singaporeans are conservative, and the Penal Code has provisions against certain homosexual practices.
Ms. Fox said the citation of the penal code was made after consulting with the Kings County District Attorney's office.
Within the penal code, the act of homosexuality is still criminalized.
He spoke after the European Commission warned that Turkey's bid to join the EU could be complicated by its delay in passing the penal code.
Given Mr Erdogan's reputation as a savvy politician, there is puzzlement in Ankara over why he shifted his ground on the penal code so abruptly.
Under the penal code, causing "grievous hurt" is grounds for arrest.
The proposed reforms of the penal code and criminal-justice system will have to overcome the entrenched attitudes of judges and lawyers, also well represented in Congress.
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Senegal has ratified international conventions for the protection of women's rights, and voted in 1999 a law, which amended the Penal Code by introducing other forms of violence and emphasizing sanctions.
Latest efforts to impose a harsher penalty on men who kill their daughters and sisters suffered a fresh setback in parliament this week, after deputies refused to sanction an amendment to the penal code.
Last year the Jordanian parliament rejected a government bill to abolish an article in the Penal Code which exempts a man from punishment if he kills a female relative after discovering her committing adultery.
Even though the immediate row over the penal code has been resolved, advocates of Turkey's EU membership have had a shock their biggest since 1997, when a brush-off from EU leaders provoked fury in Ankara.
But its proposed reform of the penal code is being criticised by some judges because, as they interpret the proposal, the most dangerous criminals could be set free after only 20 years in jail.
He may have gone too far when he suggested parts of the penal code for youth could be applied to children under 14, which was widely read as an argument for throwing them in jail.
It has modernised the penal code, given new rights to Kurds, other minorities and women, brought the army under civilian control and presided over a stable, fast-growing economy a record unmatched by any of its secular predecessors.
To get this far, Turkey has taken such dramatic steps as abolishing the death penalty, accepting Kurdish as a language in schools, scrapping state security courts, revising the penal code and tightening civilian control over the army.
They were convicted under a section of the Penal Code which outlaws deeds intended to wound or insult "the religious feelings of any class of persons" through acts committed in, upon or near sacred objects or places of worship.
One Machiavellian school of thought has it that the row over adultery was part of a devious plan to focus European attention on the penal code and away from even thornier issues such as the discrimination still faced by Turkey's non-Muslim minorities, and the ban on theological training for Orthodox Christians.
Public prosecutors have demanded that the five suspects be charged under the Indian Penal Code with crimes including murder, gang rape, robbery and kidnapping.
While prostitution is not illegal in France, profiting from the prostitution of another person is against the law, according to the French Penal Code.
But the final appeals court supported an argument put forward by Mr Berlusconi's lawyers that there may be a constitutional flaw in the reformed penal code.
Turkish law disqualifies candidates with criminal records from running for office - although Mr Erdogan had challenged those rules citing recent amendments to the Turkish penal code.
Being gay in India can get one thrown into jail in this country because of a section of the Indian Penal Code (Section 377) which criminalizes same-sex relationships.
All have been equally charged by law enforcement with a litany of offences of kidnapping, unnatural offences, dacoity, robbery, destruction of evidence, criminal conspiracy and common intention under the Indian Penal Code.
On Friday, a statement published by the STL said the prosecution was "seeking to add a new count to the indictment of 'criminal association', which is an offence under the Lebanese penal code (Article 335)".
The EU is particularly concerned about Article 301 of the reformed Turkish Penal Code, which continues to limit freedom of expression by criminalising remarks that are perceived to insult "Turkishness", Turkey or its institutions.
The "Hadd" penal code of unalterable punishments for certain crimes was firmly applied.
And neither does the State of California, which makes it a misdemeanor to solemnize a marriage without first reviewing the marriage license (Penal Code, Section 360).
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