"Oil-rich Brunei will enforce sharia criminal law next year, the Islamic kingdom's sultan announced on Tuesday, with possible punishments including stoning to death for adultery and flogging for drinking alcohol.
The law would be enforced from April, said the 67-year-old sovereign, Hassanal Bolkiah, one of the world's wealthiest people, who has presided over a shift to more conservative Islam and anti-sedition laws in recent years."
I find this article super interesting. Earlier this year I learned that if you are charged with a crime in another country - one in which you're not a citizen of or live in, you become subject to punishments enforced in that country. I'm not exactly sure if that's true, because I heard it from word of mouth while having a conversation with a friend, but it relates to this article, so that leads me to believe it is true.
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