UK Foreign Minister Told That Gay Death Sentences in Brunei Are Unlikely to be Enforced
Jeremy Hunt, the UK Foreign Minister, has said that he has been told that it is unlikely gay people will be stoned to death under the new stricter Islamic laws recently enacted in the country of Brunei.
The new laws are part of a three-phase rollout of a stricter Islamic code, the first of which began being implemented in 2014.
“Among the punishments will be the amputation of limbs for theft, the death penalty for apostasy, and a range of punishments for those found guilty of engaging in sexual activity with members of the same gender and adultery,” the human rights advocacy group, The Brunei Project, has reported.
Hunt recently met with the Bruneian foreign minister Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof, where they discussed these new laws.
“Just had the Bruneian foreign minister to my office to drive home the UK’s shock at new Sharia law. We work well together on many issues, but profoundly disagree on this,” Hunt posted on Twitter.
“His suggestion that Sharia prosecutions are in practice unlikely is not acceptable: everyone should be free to be who they are and love who they want.”
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