George Clooney has promised to keep up pressure on Brunei after the oil-rich country’s sultan, Hassanal Bolkiah, announced it would not enforce the death penalty for gay sex.
Having defended the introduction of the law in a letter to the European parliament, Brunei announced that the death penalty moratorium would be extended.
The measures were published in 2013, and the introduction of the death penalty by stoning for adultery and gay sex was announced on 3 April.
Clooney led the international outcry against Brunei’s ruling, which incorporated Islamic laws, or sharia, into the national penal code.