Police cancel event at Brunei-owned hotel over anti-LGBT laws

Police Federation cancels awards ceremony at London’s Dorchester to show opposition to regime’s new laws

The Brunei-owned Dorchester hotel has been dropped as a venue for the Police Federation’s bravery awards after widespread condemnation of the country’s introduction of new laws imposing death by stoning to punish gay sex and adultery.

The five-star Mayfair hotel has been shunned by the organisation, which said it could not support “a regime which is so fundamentally opposed to the values of respect, diversity and equality”.

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