Hassanal Bolkiah

• Birth date: 1946
  

The country has instituted a law that would stone LGBTQ people to death. So why should they pay extra to ensure their safety?

People all over the world are taking action against Brunei over its gay stoning law.

Brunei is set to allow stoning as a punishment for homosexuality. Clooney isn’t having it.

There are currently ten countries that punish homosexuality can be punished with the death penalty.

Grammy winner John Legend has canceled an appearance at a pre-Grammy party sponsored by LA Confidential magazine at the Beverly Hills Hotel because of the anti-gay views of the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Beverly Hills officials have condemned Brunei’s strict new Islamic criminal laws and want its government to separate itself from the Beverly Hills Hotel.

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is responding to harsh new laws in the tiny Southeast Asia nation of Brunei by boycotting the Beverly Hills Hotel. The Motion Picture & Television Fund joined a growing list of organizations and individuals Monday refusing to do business with hotels owned by the Sultan or government of Brunei.

LONDON — Richard Branson, the founder and CEO of the Virgin group, a £15 billion multinational conglomerate, announced Saturday that he, and his company, would boycott hotels owner by the Sultan of Brunei due to the country’s anti-gay laws.

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei — Brunei on Thursday embraced a form of Islamic Shariah criminal law that includes harsh penalties, a move slammed by international rights group as a step backward for human rights.

BANDAR SERI BEGWAN, Brunei — The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, has announced that harsh Islamic punishments that call for the death penalty for numerous offenses, including same-sex sexual activity, will come into effect on Thursday despite international condemnation.