The British royal family tries to subtly distance themselves from sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, because the oil-rich mini-state on the island of Borneo last week, the heaviest form of the islamic sharia appliance has entered. This is now the death penalty – by stoning – adultery, rape and homosexual sex, and are also amputation and flogging be introduced for other offences.
Brunei and the sultan are worldwide convicted, of the United States to the United Nations and, for example, the British and Dutch governments. It is also called for a boycott of companies and hotels that are in the hands of the sultan or the BIA, the investment company from Brunei. Saw the Dorchester hotel in London a number of reservations to be cancelled, even though the hotel issued a statement in which it stated, no form of discrimination to accept. the
The British princes William and Harry to avoid this summer Cowoth Park, a luxury hotel in Ascot, near London, where they have the past few years participated in a polotoernooi. There was money raised for by the royal family supported charities. William and Harry had already decided to spend less time on polo, but that makes them not to Cowoth Park hoeven, wrote the Daily Express today.
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The university of Oxford is a petition asked the honorary doctorate awarded by the sultan in 1993 was to withdraw while the London underground all advertising and of Brunei has been removed. Protesters asked Saturday to the breaking of diplomatic relations. In the NederlandseTweede Room and the German Bundestag is asked from the sultan and given decorations.
According to observers, the sultan of the stricter laws under more introduced to the strict believer part of its population to satisfy, now that the economically less well-going with Brunei. The sultanate, where the former Dutch queen Beatrix with prince Willem-Alexander and Máxima in 2013 on a state visit, is a member of the Commonwealth (Commonwealth) and the British military practice there regularly on warfare in the jungle.