Brunei approved the death penalty by stoning against homosexuals and adulterers | Chronic

The small Asian Sultanate of Brunei will apply the death penalty by stoning on Wednesday to punish homobaduality and adultery, legislation inspired by Islam that provoked a wave of indignation among NGOs, personalities and governments around the world.

The legislative reform of the Penal Code presupposes the successful transformation of this Southeast Asian Muslim nation governed by the Iron Fist by Sultan Hbadbad Bolkiah, who is the maximum representative of Islam in the country.

The new penal code includes stoning for homobadual crimes and adultery; mutilation of the hand or foot in case of theft; capital punishment for blasphemy, defamation of the name of the Prophet Muhammad and apostasy; and flogging for abortion, among others.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said this week that the implementation of these laws "A serious setback for human rights in Brunei", replicates the EFE news agency.

"The new penal code is fundamentally brutal when it imposes these archaic methods of punishment on acts that should not be considered as crimes", said on Wednesday Phil Robertson, deputy director for Asia of Human Rights Watch.

The new legislation has been pbaded on to major media owners around the world as of last Friday when the US actor George Clooney and the British singer Elton John They called for a boycott of nine luxury hotels linked to the Sultan of Brunei.

The Prime Minister's Office, a post occupied by the 72-year-old sultan, celebrates his opulent life and several love scandals, announced the measure Saturday with a brief statement claiming Sharia law will help maintain "peace and order" and goals "educate, respect and protect the legitimate rights of all individuals of all races and denominations".

The sultanate, prosperous thanks to its huge reserves of oil and gas, began to introduce sanctions based on Islamic law in 2014, with a first series of amendments for lighter sentences, in a two-year plan. years who was temporarily suspended by the international boycott campaign against the corporate framework under the patronage of the country.

Brunei has a dual legal system that combines civil courts, based on British laws – the Sultanate was a British protectorate until 1984 – and Islamic laws.