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LGBTI Rights in Brunei

ADDED ON: 10/27/2020

Prince Azim, Son of Sultan of Brunei, Dies
10/26/2020 | Edge Media Network

Prince Haji 'Abdul' Azim, a Hollywood film producer and the son of the Sultan of Brunei, died on Saturday morning, CNN reports. As a Hollywood insider with an estimated work of over…

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ADDED ON: 04/25/2020

Brunei’s stoning for ‘gay-sex’ law flies under the radar
04/24/2020 | East Asia Forum

In April 2019, the words ‘Sultan’, ‘Brunei’, ‘stoning’ and ‘gay-sex’ were trending globally. Condemnation of Brunei’s death by stoning law for proven acts of liwat — consensual intimacy between men — came…

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ADDED ON: 12/21/2019

Anti-gay laws in 2019: You win some, you lose some
12/20/2019 | Erasing 76 Crimes

2019 has been a mixed year for opponents of the anti-gay laws that still oppress LGBTQ people in dozens of countries worldwide. During 2019, millions fewer people than in 2018 suffered under…

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ADDED ON: 06/23/2019

Struggle among progress as countries restrict LGBTQ rights
06/23/2019 | New York Times

The world has been transformed in many ways in the 50 years since the uprising at the Stonewall Inn, with major shifts in the past decade alone on every continent. Same-sex marriage…

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ADDED ON: 06/02/2019

After Brunei episode, Aceh now in spotlight in fight for LGBT rights
06/01/2019 | New Straits Times

George Clooney’s star power helped in Brunei, but LGBT+ advocates said a similar celebrity boycott of businesses in another anti-LGBT+ hotspot in Southeast Asia is unlikely to have the same results. Clooney,…

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ADDED ON: 05/27/2019

Under-fire SQA strikes deal to provide education in violently anti-gay Brunei
05/26/2019 | Daily Record

Scotland’s under-fire exam body has agreed a deal to provide education in the violently anti-gay state of Brunei, the Sunday Mail reveals today. The Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) sells computing courses to…

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ADDED ON: 05/12/2019

Brunei LGBT community living in fear despite sultan’s death penalty reprieve
05/10/2019 | The Telegraph

When the Sultan of Brunei last week announced a moratorium on the much-condemned death penalty for gay sex, some hailed the move as a major advance. But inside the tiny South-East Asian…

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ADDED ON: 05/07/2019

Governments urged to keep pressure on Brunei after gay sex death penalty halt
05/06/2019 | Thomson Reuters Foundation

Diplomatic pressure on Brunei should not be eased until anti-LGBT+ laws are completely repealed, human rights advocates said on Monday, dismissing the Southeast Asian country's move to extend a moratorium on the…

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ADDED ON: 04/15/2019

Brunei once held off on strict Islamic law to stay in a U.S.-backed trade pact. Then Trump pulled out.
04/12/2019 | The Washington Post

When more than 100 members of Congress raised worries in 2014 over plans to include Brunei in a sweeping Pacific trade deal, envoys from the tiny sultanate rushed to Washington with a…

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ADDED ON: 04/10/2019

LGBT protesters storm Dorchester Hotel over Brunei’s gay sex laws
04/06/2019 | Yahoo News

Gay rights activists storm and block the entrance of the Sultan-owned Dorchester hotel in central London in a protest against Brunei imposing a death by stoning penalty law against gays and adulterers…

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ADDED ON: 04/08/2019

Bisexual Bruneian man speaks out against country’s new penal code
04/08/2019 | Washington Blade

A bisexual man in Brunei on April 5 said his country’s new penal code that calls for the death penalty for anyone convicted of consensual same-sex sexual relations is “weaponizing religion.” “Our…

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ADDED ON: 04/08/2019

‘It’s dangerous to go out now’: young, gay and scared in Brunei
04/06/2019 | The Guardian

Draconian new laws have spread unease rather than outright panic in a population that is used to finding ways around legislation. A day after it became legally possible to be stoned to…

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