Numerous events and awards at the hotel the Dorchester in London has been canceled because the hotel is owned by Brunei, who recently implemented a law, which means that sex between two persons of the same sex can be punished with death. It writes The Guardian.
In the course of the last few days, several companies that are owned by the state of Brunei, has been boycotted, after criticism from members of the LGBT community, including Elton John. Also George Clooney has given his support to the campaign against the small southeast asian state, which will be led with the hard hand of the country’s sultan, Hassanal Bolkiah.
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on Friday announced a number of businesses that they no longer want to use the five-star hotel. Among the companies are big ejendomsfirmaer and the media The Financial Times, which now have cancelled planned events at the hotel.
The English national ballet, Make-A-Wish foundation and Tempus Magazine has also stated that they will now reconsider its cooperation with the hotel.
Europe’s biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, has gone a step further and decided to ban its employees to stay in all the hotels owned by Brunei.
‘The new laws, Brunei has introduced, violating the most basic human rights, and we believe it is our duty as a company to take action against them,’ says the bank’s CRO, Stuart Lewis in a message.
More big companies are boycotting the hotel Dorchester in London, which is owned by the state of Brunei. Photo: Adrian Dennis/Ritzau Scanpix
on Wednesday, presented the Brunei a new set of laws under which persons who have had sex with a person of the same sex can be punished with stoning to death or whipping.
the new regulations also introduce stricter penalties across the twenty, which now can be punished with to get amputated right hand at a førstegangsforseelse and left foot, if they are apprehended the second time.
‘Every time we spend the night in, holds a meeting in or eat at one of these nine hotels, putter, we at the same time the money directly into the pockets of men who choose to stone and flog its own citizens for being homosexual, or commit adultery,’ says George Clooney as a response to the draconian law.
the Decision to introduce new rules concerning, inter alia, anal sex, and adultery was taken by Bolkiah, who is among the planet’s very richest men.
the Sultan, who also serves as the country’s prime minister, defense minister, finance minister and foreign minister, had previously proposed the controversial laws in 2013, but it received massive criticism from the international community put a stop to.
Actor George Clooney and musician Elton John have both been out with strong criticism of Brunei’s sultan, after he introduced a set of draconian laws, which among other things means, that theft is punishable by amputation of the limb. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
Homosexuality has always been illegal in Brunei, but the sultan has now introduced further improvements in an attempt to increase the influence of Islam in the country.
the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has agreed to remove the advertising, promoting Brunei as a tourist attraction from the city’s buses, trains and underground.
The former british colony has been independent since 1984, but the sultan pays continue to have around 2000 british soldiers stationed in the country as part of a five-year agreement, which expires next year.
