Malaysia
Big Interviews, Malaysia, Politics - Tuesday, February 2, 2010 22:50 - 6 Comments
Malaysia’s Democracy on Trial
Australian Financial Review, February 2 2010
When Anwar Ibrahim walks into the Kuala Lumpur High Court today, he will at least know what to expect.
Anwar, Malaysia’s one-time deputy prime minister and now the de facto leader of the first credible opposition in Malaysia’s independent history, is facing the third incarceration of his life. The first was a 22-month detention when a student leader in the 1970s; the second a six-year stint in 1998 for sodomy (overturned in 2004) and corruption, during the administration of his one-time mentor, Mahathir Mohamed. Now, he faces another sodomy charge, and the potential of 20 years in jail. Locally the press are calling it Sodomy II, like a sequel. “They use the same script,” he tells the AFR in an interview in his Kuala Lumpur offices. “I’ll leave it to the lawyers. I don’t have any trust in the system.”
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