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    UN condemns Brunei for new law allowing gays to be stoned to death

    The United Nations has condemned Brunei for adopting a new penal code that calls for death by stoning for same-sex sexual activity.

    It has long been a crime in Brunei, but the maximum punishment had been a 10-year prison sentence.

    However, Brunei, a predominately Muslim state, has now adopted a new penal code that calls for death by stoning for consenting same-sex sexual activity, adultery, rape, extramarital sexual relations, and for declaring oneself to be non-Muslim.

    The new penal code will come into effect on 22 April.

    “Application of the death penalty for such a broad range of offenses contravenes international law,” said Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

    Rape, adultery, sodomy, extramarital sexual relations for Muslims, insulting any verses of the Quran and Hadith, blasphemy, declaring oneself a prophet or non-Muslim, and murder are the other offences for which the death penalty could be applied under the revised code.

    Noting that Brunei has maintained an effective moratorium on the use of the death penalty since 1957, OHCHR urged the government to establish a formal moratorium and to work towards abolishing the practice altogether.

    “Under international law, stoning people to death constitutes torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and is thus clearly prohibited,” Mr Colville stated.

    He added that the criminalisation and application of the death penalty for consensual relations between adults in private also violates a whole host of rights, including the rights to privacy, equality, freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention.

    Hassanal Bolkiah has been the Sultan of Brunei, head of government and state, since 1967.

    Brunei gained independence from the UK in 1984.

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    Would it be racist to say that "some" muslims are good, but "these" muslims are evil?

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    No they are racist because you can be stoned to death for being non-Muslim, any Christian or other religious group other than Muslim in this country...are in deep, deep trouble
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    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Brunei to move forward with harsh law calling for death by stoning for gays

    BANDAR SERI BEGWAN, Brunei — The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, has announced that harsh Islamic punishments that call for the death penalty for numerous offenses, including same-sex sexual activity, will come into effect on Thursday despite international condemnation.

    “I place my faith in and am grateful to Allah the almighty to announce that tomorrow, Thursday May 1, 2014, will see the enforcement of sharia law phase one, to be followed by the other phases,” the monarch said in a royal decree Wednesday.Authorities in the predominately Muslim state in Southeast Asia, announced launch of the first phase of the new penal code at a sharia “declaration ceremony” on Wednesday, reports AFP.

    The sharia penalties, implemented in three phases over the next three years, will eventually include flogging, severing of limbs and death by stoning. The law was to come into effect last week, but was postponed amid condemnation from the United Nations and rare criticism at home.

    The Brunei Times reports
    that the three phases include:
    Phase 1: Fines and prison sentences for various crimes;
    Phase 2: Severing of limps for for crimes of theft;
    Phase 3: Death by stoning for sexual crimes, including adultery, rape and same-sex sexual activity

    The law also states that “the order shall apply to both Muslims and non-Muslims, except where expressly provided.”

    The United Nations Human Rights office has condemned the revised penal code, saying that “application of the death penalty for such a broad range of offenses contravenes international law.”

    Hassanal Bolkiah, the 67-year-old sultan — one of the world’s wealthiest men — said the move was “a must” under Islam, dismissing “never-ending theories” that sharia punishments were cruel.

    News of the Sultan’s assets, including the Dorchester Collection, a group of luxury hotels that includes the famed Beverly Hills Hotel and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

    Earlier this month, a group of high-dollar LGBT donors cancelled plans to hold a conference at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and celebrities Ellen DeGeneres and Sharon Osborne have spoken out to call attention to the hotels’ owner.

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    Hollywood responding to Brunei's new penal code that calls for stoning of gays

    LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is responding to harsh new laws in the tiny Southeast Asia nation of Brunei by boycotting the Beverly Hills Hotel.

    The Motion Picture & Television Fund joined a growing list of organizations and individuals Monday refusing to do business with hotels owned by the Sultan or government of Brunei. They’re protesting the country’s new Islamic Shariah criminal law that calls for punishing adultery, abortions and same-sex relationships with flogging and stoning.

    Others boycotting the Sultan’s Dorchester Collection of hotels include Richard Branson’s Virgin Group; the Hollywood Reporter, which traditionally holds a starry media breakfast at the Beverly Hills Hotel; and the Feminist Majority Foundation, which moved its annual Global Women’s Rights Awards on Monday from the Beverly Hills Hotel to the nearby Hammer Museum.

    Branson tweeted over the weekend that no member of his staff would stay at any Dorchester Collection hotel “until the Sultan abides by basic human rights.”

    Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, who owns the Beverly Hills Hotel and Hotel Bel-Air, has praised his country’s new laws as a “great achievement.”

    “The decision to implement the (Shariah penal code) is not for fun but is to obey Allah’s command as written in the Quran,” the sultan said last week.

    Brunei, a conservative country where alcohol is banned and Muslim courts already govern family affairs, began phasing in its version of Shariah that allows for penalties such as amputation for theft and stoning for adultery. Most of the punishments can be applied to non-Muslims, who account for about one-third of the 440,000 people in the oil-rich country. The most severe punishments — flogging, amputation and stoning — are to be introduced over the next two years.

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    Brunei to punish gay sex and adultery with death by stoning

    By Ben Westcott
    CNN

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    A new law which comes into effect from next week will punish homosexual sex and adultery with death in the small southeast Asian kingdom of Brunei.

    Beginning on April 3, any individuals found guilty of the offenses will be stoned to death, according to a new penal code. The punishment will be "witnessed by a group of Muslims."

    The country's strict new laws were announced in 2014, and have been rolled out gradually. The latest phase of implementation, including the brutal new provisions, was quietly announced on the Brunei attorney general's website on December 29, 2018.

    Human rights groups were quick to express horror at the penal code, which will also order amputation as a punishment for theft.

    "Brunei must immediately halt its plans to implement these vicious punishments, and revise its Penal Code in compliance with its human rights obligations. The international community must urgently condemn Brunei's move to put these cruel penalties into practice," Rachel Chhoa-Howard, Brunei Researcher at Amnesty International, said in a statement.

    There was a broad international outcry when Brunei became the first country in the region to adopt sharia law in 2014, an Islamic legal system which outlines strict corporal punishments.

    The tiny, oil-rich kingdom of just over 450,000 people is located on the island of Borneo, close to moderate Islamic nations of Indonesia and Malaysia.

    In comparison to its neighbors, Brunei has grown conservative in recent years, including banning the sale of alcohol.

    The new penal code was announced in May 2014, by the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, who also acts as the country's prime minister. In announcing the change, government's website quoted the Sultan saying that his government "does not expect other people to accept and agree with it, but that it would suffice if they just respect the nation in the same way that it also respects them."

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    Brunei already backed down once again with the law. It is another country where the DP only exists in a book, yet people continue to act with "horror" and "terror" at nonexistent " barbarity".
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    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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