In Brunei, they will stone homosexuals to death and adults …

Next week, a new criminal code will be set up in the Asian state of Brunei. It provides for the death penalty by sentencing to death persons who have bad with persons of the same bad and persons accused of adultery. The text that will be implemented by the small sultanate of 400,000 inhabitants leads to sharia, the Islamic religious law. Human rights organizations have repudiated the new law as being "inhumane and cruel" and even Hollywood actor George Clooney has called for a boycott of the chain of luxury hotels that the Sultan of Brunei has in different cities of the world.

According to a brief statement by Brunei's religious authorities, on Wednesday, April 3, the new Penal Code transforming homobaduality and adultery into crimes punishable by death by stoning will come into force in the Sultanate. Although homobadual relations in this country were banned 10 years ago, the new law will now apply the harshest sentence.

The new code also toughens penalties for common crimes. The new sanction for theft will be the amputation of the right hand in case of first offense and the left foot in case of recidivism.

Human rights organizations are shouting in the sky for the new project that will persecute gay people until death. "Brunei must immediately stop implementing these ruthless sanctions and revise its criminal code in accordance with human rights obligations." The international community must urgently condemn this measure to put these sanctions into practice. cruel, "he said. Rachel Chhoa-Howard, representative of Amnesty International in the Arab country.

They punished on the part of the organization the fact that homobaduality and adultery are considered a crime, which, besides it is clear that they should only not even to be characterized as crimes, "blatantly restricts the rights to freedom of expression, religion and belief".

The only clarification provided by the country's Ministry of Religious Affairs is that the stoning death penalty for homobaduals and adulterers will only apply to people of Islamic religion and that, therefore, the death penalty is not the same. execution must be respected by a "group of Muslims". "To legalize such cruel and inhuman punishment is atrocious," said Chhoa-Howard.

As a sultanate, the country is ruled by the Brunei dynasty. According to Forbes magazine, Sultan Hbadbad Bolkiah was considered one of the richest men in the world. His personal fortune is $ 20 million, including a palace of more than 1,500 rooms and a collection of 5,000 luxury cars.

Beyond eccentricities, the sultan is considered one of the toughest dictators in Asia. In fact, Brunei practiced Islam more strictly than some of its neighboring countries. In 2015, Hbadbad Bolkiah partially banned Christmas because his symbols could "turn away" Muslims.

American actor George Clooney, who called for a boycott of the chain of hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei, joined the international repudiation. In total, there are nine luxury hotels, the Dorchester Collection, located in London, Ascot, Paris, Rome, Milan and Los Angeles. "Let's be clear, every time we stay or meet or eat in any of these nine hotels, we give money directly to men who choose to stoned or bad until the death of their own citizens because they are homobaduals or accused of adultery, "he said. l & # 39; actor.

Clooney acknowledged that even though the boycott "will have little effect on changing laws," it will not at least increase the fortunes of the Sultan of Brunei. "Will we help pay for these human rights violations, will we really help finance the killing of innocent citizens?" I've learned over the years that one should not embarrbad the murderous diets, but the banks. the financiers and institutions that deal with them and choose to look away, "said the actor.