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Brunei makes homosexual sex and adultery punishable by death by stoning
By Emily Tamkin March 28 at 10:03 AM
Beginning next week, homosexual sex and adultery will be punishable by death by stoning in Brunei under a new law that comes into effect April 3.
A strict set of new laws was announced in 2014 by the country’s sultan, Hassanal Bolkiah, who doubles as the prime minister. The country became the first in its region to adapt Islamic sharia law. But the laws’ implementation in the small Southeast Asian kingdom has been gradual. A notice of the April 3 start date went up on the Brunei attorney general’s website Dec. 29.
The announcement that the law will go into effect April 3 is “the outcome of a pretty rigorous process of figuring out how to implement a 2014 shariah penal code,” Brian Harding, deputy director and fellow of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote in an email. “The whole initiative is driven by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah who is seeking to make the country more culturally Islamic, at least in his vision.”
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/28/brunei-makes-homosexual-sex-adultery-punishable-by-death-by-stoning/?utm_term=.2bf5596de974
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