Artikal 371 - Bermula 03 April 2019, Brunei melaksanakan Hukum Hudud. Brunei telah menulis ke Parlimen Eropah bagi mempertahan dan memperjelaskan keputusannya melaksanakan Hukum Hudud. “The criminalisation of adultery and sodomy is to safeguard the sanctity of family lineage and marriage to individual Muslims, particularly women” “The penal sentences of hadd – stoning to death and amputation, imposed for offences of theft, robbery, adultery and sodomy have extremely high evidentiary threshold, requiring no less than two or four men of high moral standing and piety as witnesses – to the exclusion of every form of circumstantial evidence.” “coupled with a very high standard of proof of ‘no doubt at all’ for all aspects, which goes further than the common law standard of ‘beyond reasonable doubt’”. Such is the required “standards of piety of the male witness” that the kingdom writes that it is “extremely difficult to find one in this day and age, to the extent that convictions ...