A Canadian traveller has been refunded for a flight to Brunei after he learned new Islamic criminal laws in the small Southeast Asian nation permit stoning offenders to death for gay sex and adultery.
Adrien Poudrier was watching the news on Saturday when he learned that Sharia laws introduced five years ago had now come into effect. As a member of the LGBT community who has a number of tattoos on his body featuring gay iconography including the rainbow pride flag, he was unsettled by what he learned.
When he tried to get his money back for his flight to Brunei, his travel agency initially told him their policy didn’t allow them to grant a refund. One of the agency managers told him that they had contacted the state-owned Royal Brunei Airlines to ask for guidance on how to deal with gay passengers, which made Poudrier even more uneasy.
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