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Brunei to Impose Death by Stoning for Gay Sex And Adultery

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03/27/19
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Adultery and gay sex in Brunei will be subject to death by stoning from next week, authorities said, under a strict Sharia law that has been on hold for four years amid heavy criticism.

Rights groups reacted in horror Wednesday to the latest hardline move from the resource-rich nation on Borneo, which practices a stricter brand of Islam than its neighbors Malaysia and Indonesia.

The tiny sultanate will implement the harsh new penal code – which also prescribes amputation of a hand and foot for theft – next Wednesday.


‘Appalling’ 

Homosexuality is already illegal in Brunei but it will now become a capital offense. The law only applies to Muslims.

The new penalty for theft is amputation of the right hand for a first offense, and the left foot for a second offense.

Amnesty International Wednesday urged Brunei to “immediately halt” implementing the new penalties.

“To legalize such cruel and inhuman penalties is appalling of itself,” Brunei researcher Rachel Chhoa-Howard said in a statement.

Human rights groups report that Brunei plans to implement anti-LGBTQ laws starting in April, including one which makes same-sex relations punishable by whipping or stoning to death. Being gay is currently punishable by up to 10 years in prison. pic.twitter.com/1E85gyTqU9

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“Some of the potential ‘offenses’ should not even be deemed crimes at all, including consensual sex between adults of the same gender.”

A notice on Brunei’s Attorney General’s Chambers dated December 29 last year said the provisions will take effect on April 3.


‘Hardline Shift’

Brunei first announced the measures in 2013 but implementation has been delayed as officials worked out the practical details and in the teeth of opposition by rights groups.

Under a shift towards hardline Islamic law, Brunei in 2015 banned excessive Christmas celebrations for fear that Muslims could be led astray.

Brunei’s Sultan is no stranger to controversy at home – the monarchy was deeply embarrassed by a family feud with his brother Jefri over the latter’s alleged embezzlement of $15 billion during his tenure as finance minister in the 1990s.

Court battles and investigations revealed salacious details of Jefri’s un-Islamic jetset lifestyle, including claims of a high-priced harem of foreign women and a luxury yacht he owned called “Tits.”


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