Brunei Defends Stoning of Gay Men in a Letter to the European Parliament

Brunei’s EU embassy notes that the country’s sharia law was meant to prevent homosexuality from taking place instead of punishing people after the fact, Nikolaj Nielsen of the EU Observer reports. Furthermore, it says that people who commit less severe “crimes” are to be whipped with moderate force not to result in the laceration of the skin or broken bones.

Read the sultanate’s horrifying letter in full here.