Bolkiah’s draconian decree violates ASEAN Declaration
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS TWO years ago in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and nine other Southeast Asian leaders signed the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration which provides that, “No person shall be subject to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Last week, the Sultan of the oil-rich Brunei, Hassanal
