Britain posthumously pardons thousands of gay men in 'Turing law'

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Britain posthumously pardons thousands of gay men in 'Turing law'

By Angela Dewan, CNN
Updated 11:07 AM ET, Tue January 31, 2017

London (CNN)Thousands of gay and bisexual men who were convicted of now-abolished sexual offenses in Britain have been posthumously pardoned under a new policing law, the Justice Ministry announced.

The "Turing law" received royal assent on Tuesday, the last stage in a bill becoming law in the United Kingdom. It gives an automatic pardon to men who died before the law came into force, and makes it possible for living convicted gay men to seek pardons for offenses no longer on the statute book.

The law was named after World War II codebreaker and mathematician Alan Turing -- subject of the 2014 film "The Imitation Game" -- who killed himself in 1954 after he was subjected to chemical castration as punishment for homosexual activity.

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Even the UK Govt. has issued a statement.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-officially-pardoned-under-turings-law