Actor George Clooney is urging consumers to boycott nine hotels linked to the country of Brunei over its plans to impose harsh new criminal sentences. The penalties being implemented, based on Islamic ...

This month, the Sultanate of Brunei confirmed plans to impose a new penal code with brutal punishments. These include whipping or death by stoning for extramarital sex and anal sex, among other things ...

Brunei on Wednesday introduced harsh new sharia laws, including death by stoning for adultery and gay sex, despite a storm of global criticism from politicians, celebrities and rights groups. The ...

When the tiny, oil-rich kingdom of Brunei first announced in 2013 that it would adopt strict Islamic laws, including death by stoning for gay sex, many in the country’s LGBT community considered ...

SINGAPORE – New Islamic criminal laws that took effect in Brunei on Wednesday, punishing gay sex and adultery by stoning offenders to death, have triggered an outcry from countries, rights groups and ...

Brunei is defending its new anti-LGBTQ law, which makes homosexuality — as well as sodomy, adultery and rape — punishable by death by stoning. In a letter sent to the United Nations Monday it said ...

Brunei’s sultan announced Tuesday that a new Islamic criminal law that could include penalties like amputation for theft and stoning for adultery will be enforced in six months. Sultan Hassanal ...

In the spring of 2019, reports emerged claiming that the government of Brunei was set to introduce a raft of new criminal laws on 3 April, which would include a penalty of death by stoning for people ...

Like many Americans, my first exposure to death by stoning came from reading Shirley Jackson’s short story, "The Lottery," in high school. First published in 1948 in The New Yorker, the story is the ...

The sultan of Brunei says his country will extend its moratorium on the death penalty to include newly enacted laws punishing homosexual acts and adultery with death by stoning, in an apparent ...

SINGAPORE – New Islamic criminal laws that took effect Wednesday in Brunei that punish gay sex and adultery by stoning offenders to death have triggered an outcry from countries, rights groups and ...