Pompeo, State Department Won’t Condemn Brunei’s LGBT Stoning Law

Mike Pompeo, the U.S. secretary of state, and the State Department have declined to directly condemn a new law in Brunei stipulating the stoning to death of LGBT people. Earlier Friday, a U.S. State Department spokesperson told The Daily Beast exclusively that it was “concerned” by the new law, which imposes death by stoning or whipping for sodomy, adultery, or rape, and amputation of a hand or foot for theft. In follow-up questions, The Daily Beast then asked if Pompeo and the State Department specifically objected to the violently anti-LGBT law, set to take effect on April 3. A spokesperson declined to directly address the question.

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