Submitted on Wednesday 3rd April 2019
Rejected on Wednesday 24th April 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: honours (see below for details)
Strip the Sultan of Brunei of his UK Honours
The Sultan of Brunei has implemented anti-LGBT laws that means gay men can be stoned to death. He is the ruler and Prime Minister - it was a personal decision. He should not be stripped of UK Honours as others have been for far less than actively promoting the killing of gay people.
Honours can be revoked by the Honours Forfeiture Committe previous examples here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honours_Forfeiture_Committee) show Naseem Hamed (for injuring people while drunk driving) and Lester Piggot (tax evasion). If the government is not willing to recommend this action, it should say why tax evasion is worse than killing gay men.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can't accept petitions asking for people's honours to be taken away. You can find out more about how honours are taken away here:
www.gov.uk/guidance/having-honours-taken-away-forfeiture
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