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Fifty years on, Norway apologises for law that criminalised gay sex

FILE PHOTO: Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere speaks during the High Level Segment session of the One Ocean Summit (OOS) which seeks to raise the international community's ambitions to protect sealife, cut plastic pollution and tackle the impact of climate change, in Brest, France February 11, 2022. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

The Norwegian government formally apologised to gay men on Wednesday for a law that once criminalised sexual intercourse between men.

Some 119 individuals were convicted and sent to jail between 1902 and 1950 under a law that was abolished 22 years later, on April 21, 1972.

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