Beverly Hills demands Brunei Sultan sell hotel after hudud move


LOS ANGELES: Beverly Hills is demanding that the Sultan of Brunei sell a hotel in the celebrity-rich US city, after he introduced a penal code incorporating Islamic sharia law, officials said Wednesday. 

Stars including Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres and business tycoon Richard Branson have also called for a boycott of the chain, which owns the Beverly Hills Hotel. But the head of the Dorchester Collection chain said that would be wrong-headed, and only harm hotel staff. 

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