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Brunei to begin stoning gay & bi men under sharia law
[lgbtqnation] Brunei will soon allow for stoning to be used as punishment for sodomy...."The decision to implement the (penal code) is not for fun but is to obey Allah's command as written in the Quran," Sultan and Prime Minister Hassanal Bolkiah said in 2014 when the changes started to go into effect, adding that the changes to the penal code as a "great achievement."...Several updates to the penal code that were approved in 2013 will go into effect on April 3, according to a notice published on the government’s website. "I am extremely concerned by this move," said Matthew Woolfe of the human rights organization The Brunei Project told Gay Star News. "Some of the laws that we are about to see implemented are horrendous and unjustifiable." Currently ten countries punish homosexuality and have the potential to use the death penalty. Several of them, including Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Mauritania, specify that stoning can be used as a punishment. of special interest here is that a gay rights org put out a call out without using the jargon of intersectionality Posted by: lord garth 2019-03-27 |
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