A joint sitting of the two houses of Bhutan’s parliament on Thursday, 10 December, passed a bill to decriminalise homosexuality, reported Reuters, making the Himalayan kingdom the latest Asian country to remove legal restrictions on same-sex relationships.
According to the report, Sections 213 and 214 of their penal code criminalised "unnatural sex".
63 of the total 69 members of both houses of the parliament had voted in favour of scrapping the provision, while six members were reportedly absent.