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George Clooney calls for Brunei-owned luxury hotel boycott over anti-gay laws | News | DW

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George Clooney used a guest column in Deadline to call on fellow celebrities to boycott the nine hotels of the Dorchester Collection, owned by the Sultan of Brunei’s Investment Agency. They include The Beverly Hills Hotel in California and the Dorchester on London’s Park Lane.

Next week, on April 3 a harsh interpretation of Sharia Law, the Islamic Penal Code, is to be imposed on the 428,000 people who live in the tiny, oil-rich state on the island of Borneo in the South China Sea. The laws include penalties for gay sex of stoning offenders to death.

The 72-year-old Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has described the implementation as “a great achievement.”

The Sultan celebrated his 50th year on the Brunei throne in 2017

The Sultan celebrated his 50th year on the Brunei throne in 2017

Clooney expressed another view: “Every single time we stay at, or take meetings at or dine at any of these nine hotels we are putting money directly into the pockets of men who choose to stone and whip to death their own citizens for being gay or accused of adultery,” he wrote. He called on the public to join him in a boycott.

“Below I’ve listed the nine hotels. It’s up to each of us what we want to do:”

  • The Dorchester, London
  • 45 Park Lane, London
  • Coworth Park, Ascot
  • Le Meurice, Paris
  • Hotel Plaza Athenee,
  • Hotel Principe di Savoia, Milan
  • Hotel Eden, Rome
  • The Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills
  • Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles.
    Beverly Hills Hotel

“Are we really going to help pay for these human rights violations? Are we really going to help fund the murder of innocent citizens,” Clooney asked.

Clooney admitted he had stayed at many of the hotels: “Because I hadn’t done my homework and didn’t know who owned them.”

Veteran BBC reporter John Simpson said he would follow the boycott: “I love the Dorchester Hotel in London,” he wrote. “But I couldn’t set foot there while, back home in Brunei, its owner introduces stoning to death for adultery & gay sex.”

A similar celebrity boycott was promoted in 2014 for Brunei’s treatment of the gay community, after it first announced its intention to introduce Sharia Law.

With personal wealth estimated at $20 billion (€17.8 billion), Sultan Bolkiah has been on the Brunei throne since 1967.

jm/ng (Reuters, AP)

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