Santo Domingo.- The Constitutional Court docket (TC) struck down provisions that criminalized same-sex relationships inside the Nationwide Police and the Armed Forces, ruling them unconstitutional. The choice permits army and police personnel to take care of same-sex romantic relationships with out the chance of disciplinary sanctions.

In judgment TC/1225/25, the Court docket annulled Article 210 of Regulation 285, which governs the Nationwide Police Justice Code, and Article 260 of Regulation 3483, which varieties a part of the Armed Forces Justice Code. The justices decided that these provisions violated the precept of reasonableness and imposed unjustified discrimination towards gay people.

The now-invalidated articles outlined “sodomy” as sexual relations between individuals of the identical intercourse and imposed correctional imprisonment of six months to 1 yr when dedicated by an officer.