Brunei sultan calls for 'stronger' Islamic teachings, as Syariah laws due to enter force
Officials did not immediately confirm that the Syariah penal code had entered into force. At the weekend, the Brunei government said in a statement that the new punishments would be enforced from Wednesday.Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said the code was"barbaric to the core, imposing archaic punishments for acts that shouldn't even be crimes".
The new laws make sex between men punishable by death by stoning. For women convicted of having sexual relations with other women, the maximum punishment is 40 strokes of the cane or a maximum 10-year jail term. Since then, a series of well-known figures have lined up to add their names to the chorus of condemnation, including former US vice president Joe Biden and actress Jamie Lee Curtis.the punishments run counter to Brunei's"international human rights obligations".
The sultan, who is the world's second-longest reigning monarch, first called for the penal code in the late 1990s and it appears to enjoy broad support in the former British protectorate of about 400,000 people.
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