This Week, Brunei Apply Stoning for Gay and Adultery
This Week, Brunei Apply Stoning for Gay and Adultery
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BANDAR SRI BEGAWAN - Brunei Darussalam Government will implement stoning for homosexuals in the country. This penalty will also be imposed for adultery in a country which started this year to apply the sharia law.
As reported by the Huffington Post, the Sultanate of Brunei has revised the state criminal law and replace it with Sharia law. In the new law, execution by stoning to be applied to the adultery, extramarital relationships, rape, and sodomy usual gay.
The death penalty will also be given on the charge of defamation of the verses of the Al Quran and the Hadith, the prophet confessed, and murder.
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah decision is condemnation from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UHCHR). In a statement, Commissioner UHCHR Rupert Colville said that the death penalty for a wide range of actions called a violation of international law.
"We urge the government to postpone the implementation of the revision of the law and conduct a comprehensive review to ensure compliance with international human rights standards," said Colville.
Protests have also been raised by LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual), Gill Action, by canceling conventions scheduled to be held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, United States, 1-4 May. The hotel is owned Dorchester Group, which is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
Although the death penalty under the law, but the execution was never carried out in Brunei since 1957. UHCHR urged the Sultanate of Brunei conduct a formal moratorium on executions and stop it.
The application of Sharia law in 2014 Sultan Bolkiah was announced last year. This penalty will only apply to Muslims in the country, which account for a third of the overall population of 420,000 people.
"This is because we need to Almighty God, in all His mercy, has created a law for us, so that it can uphold justice," said Bolkiah at the time.
In addition to stoning, sharia criminal penalties load of hand amputation for thieves. However, to implement this law is not as easy as one might imagine, there are strict rules.
Cut hand will only be imposed for the stolen goods reach the worth or more than a quarter of a dinar (4.25 grams of gold). Less than it was a prison. While stoning is only applied to the adulterer who had married, with four witnesses presented by men who saw it plainly adultery. Meanwhile, the unmarried would be caned 100 times. Flogging is also given to the consumer of khamr or liquor.
As reported by the Huffington Post, the Sultanate of Brunei has revised the state criminal law and replace it with Sharia law. In the new law, execution by stoning to be applied to the adultery, extramarital relationships, rape, and sodomy usual gay.
The death penalty will also be given on the charge of defamation of the verses of the Al Quran and the Hadith, the prophet confessed, and murder.
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah decision is condemnation from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UHCHR). In a statement, Commissioner UHCHR Rupert Colville said that the death penalty for a wide range of actions called a violation of international law.
"We urge the government to postpone the implementation of the revision of the law and conduct a comprehensive review to ensure compliance with international human rights standards," said Colville.
Protests have also been raised by LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual), Gill Action, by canceling conventions scheduled to be held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, United States, 1-4 May. The hotel is owned Dorchester Group, which is controlled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
Although the death penalty under the law, but the execution was never carried out in Brunei since 1957. UHCHR urged the Sultanate of Brunei conduct a formal moratorium on executions and stop it.
The application of Sharia law in 2014 Sultan Bolkiah was announced last year. This penalty will only apply to Muslims in the country, which account for a third of the overall population of 420,000 people.
"This is because we need to Almighty God, in all His mercy, has created a law for us, so that it can uphold justice," said Bolkiah at the time.
In addition to stoning, sharia criminal penalties load of hand amputation for thieves. However, to implement this law is not as easy as one might imagine, there are strict rules.
Cut hand will only be imposed for the stolen goods reach the worth or more than a quarter of a dinar (4.25 grams of gold). Less than it was a prison. While stoning is only applied to the adulterer who had married, with four witnesses presented by men who saw it plainly adultery. Meanwhile, the unmarried would be caned 100 times. Flogging is also given to the consumer of khamr or liquor.
(rnz)
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