The United Nations has condemned the new measures with the Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet calling them cruel and inhuman punishments that seriously breach international human rights law.
A growing list of officials, celebrities and human rights groups have criticized the billionaire Sultan of Brunei after the government introduced a draconian penal code that includes death by stoning for gay sex, amputation for theft and public flogging for abortion.
Undeterred, Brunei's leader Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah called on Wednesday for"stronger" Islamic teachings in the small, oil rich Southeast Asian nation where two thirds of the population are Muslims. Brunei currently retains the death penalty in law but the last execution was carried out in 1957. Homosexuality has always been illegal in Brunei but the stricter Islamic laws now make it punishable by stoning to death. To be found guilty, an individual would have to either confess their involvement or be condemned by four witnesses.
In a statement, Bachelet urged Brunei"to maintain its de facto moratorium on the use of capital punishment." The European Union echoed that statement and said in a statement Wednesday that"some of the punishments foreseen in the criminal code amount to torture, acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment."
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