In September 1993, police in Singapore arrested 12 men in an “anti-gay” entrapment operation [Note 1].
Undercover policemen pretended to be queer at a cruising spot at Ford Road beach, and baited men to make sexual advancements on them. Once that happened, the undercover cops had the men arrested and charged.
This operation, later called the “Fort Road incident”, was just one of many “anti-gay” stings conducted by the police since the late 1980s. Yet something about it was different.
Instead of a fine, the arrested men were sentenced for the first time to jail and 3 strokes of the cane. This punishment was so unusually harsh that it caused an uproar within the queer community. In an appeal by one of the arrested men, then-Chief Justice (CJ) Yong Pung How even expressed his concern over the way the charges were handled.
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