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George Clooney Boycotts Hotels Linked to Brunei Over Anti-LGBT Laws

The actor is protesting new legislation in oil-rich Brunei calling for anyone who commits adultery or engages in LGBT sex to be stoned to death.

George Clooney has called for a complete boycott of nine hotel chains linked to Brunei after the kingdom passed legislation that calls for stoning to death anyone committing adultery or engaging in LGBT sex. Writing in Deadline, the Oceans actor said that legislation to take effect next week should be punished. He lists nine hotels—including The Dorchester in London, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, Le Meurice in Paris and the Hotel Eden in Rome—as among those that should be boycotted. “They’re nice hotels. The people who work there are kind and helpful and have no part in the ownership of these properties,” he wrote. “But let’s be clear, 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.”

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