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Reforms in Sudan Result in Removal of Death Penalty and Flogging for Same-Sex Relations
About 14 days several legal reforms were passed by the Sovereign Council of Sudan, including banning of female genital mutilation, removal of an apostasy law which punished abandonment of Islam with death by stoning, as well as banning public flogging.
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UK: Conservative Party scrapped Brunei-owned hotel event over anti-gay laws
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt called off the fundraiser for the governing Conservative Party after Brunei introduced the death penalty for gay sex among several harsh new sharia laws.
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Sultan of Brunei’s hotel besieged in protest at gay death penalty
Nearly 400 hundred people rallied outside the Dorchester Hotel in London on Saturday 6 April to protest against Brunei’s enactment of death by stoning for homosexuality, adultery and insulting the prophet Mohammad.
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Death penalty by stoning for homosexuality: MEPs write to Brunei’s Sultan
On 3 April 2019, Brunei starts implementing a law that imposes – among others – death penalty by stoning for same-sex relationships.