In a landmark court ruling, an activist in Hong Kong has partially won his appeal seeking recognition for same-sex marriages registered overseas.
, married his husband in New York 10 years ago. Sham first asked for a judicial review in 2018, arguing that Hong Kong’s laws, which don’t recognize foreign same-sex marriage, violated the constitutional right to equality. The lower courts had dismissed his challenges.following the anti-government protests. The law has been used to arrest and silence many other pro-democracy activists as part of a crackdown on dissent in the former British colony.
“The absence of legal recognition of their relationship is apt to disrupt and demean their private lives together in ways that constitute arbitrary interference,” Justice Patrick Keane wrote. But the judges unanimously dismissed Sham’s appeal on other grounds relating to same-sex marriage and recognition of overseas same-sex unions.
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