Cruel and inhuman punishments such as death by stoning for same-sex sexual acts and amputation for robbery will come into effect in Brunei Darussalam next week, Amnesty International said today.<\/p>\n\n\n
Pending provisions in Brunei\u2019s Penal Code would allow stoning and amputation as punishments \u2013 including for children, to name only their most heinous aspects <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n
\u201cPending provisions in Brunei\u2019s Penal Code would allow stoning and amputation as punishments \u2013 including for children, to name only their most heinous aspects,\u201d said Rachel Chhoa-Howard, Brunei Researcher at Amnesty International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBrunei must immediately halt its plans to implement these vicious punishments, and revise its Penal Code in compliance with its human rights obligations. The international community must urgently condemn Brunei\u2019s move to put these cruel penalties into practice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These punishments are provided for in newly-implemented sections of the Brunei Darussalam Syariah Penal Code that are due to come into force on 3 April 2019, according to a discreet notice<\/a> on the Attorney General\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTo legalize such cruel and inhuman penalties is appalling of itself. Some of the potential \u2018offences\u2019 should not even be deemed crimes at all, including consensual sex between adults of the same gender,\u201d said Rachel Chhoa-Howard. \u201cThese abusive provisions received widespread condemnation when plans were first discussed five years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amnesty expressed grave concerns<\/a> over the Penal Code when the code\u2019s first phase was implemented in April 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBrunei\u2019s Penal Code is a deeply flawed piece of legislation containing a range of provisions that violate human rights,\u201d said Rachel Chhoa-Howard. \u201cAs well as imposing cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments, it blatantly restricts the rights to freedom of expression, religion, and belief, and codifies discrimination against women and girls.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brunei Darussalam has signed but not yet ratified the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and has rejected all recommendations to this effect in its human rights review at the UN in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under international human rights law, corporal punishment in all its forms, such as stoning, amputation or whipping, constitutes torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment, which is prohibited in all circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Acts of torture and other ill-treatment are absolutely proscribed in the main international human rights instruments, most of which Brunei has not signed or ratified. In addition, this prohibition is also recognized as a peremptory rule of customary international law, meaning that every state is bound by it even if they are not party to a relevant human rights treaty. All acts of torture constitute crimes under international law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Brunei retains the death penalty in law, it is abolitionist in practice. One new death sentence was imposed in 2017, for a drug related offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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