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Saturday, October 18, 2014

Anwar won’t stay in UK, willing to risk jail over sodomy appeal

Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim says he will fight on and continue the struggle for Malaysia. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, October 18, 2014.Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim says he will fight on and continue the struggle for Malaysia. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, October 18, 2014.
Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim told a British newspaper he was willing to risk imprisonment over sodomy charges in order to fight the Barisan Nasional government.
Anwar is in the United Kingdom for a consultation meeting on higher education in the Muslim world held at the University of Westminster.
Anwar told The Telegraph that other scholars he met had asked him to remain abroad to avoid the Federal Court's decision later this month on his final sodomy appeal.
“I know the difficulties, tribulations of fighting a corrupt, opaque system.
"It is difficult for me, for my family and friends, but I still have a glimmer of hope that sanity will prevail, that the federal court will decide based on fact and law and not work under the thumb of the executive," he told The Telegraph in an interview recorded on video and published yesterday.
"Therefore, I have decided to return to my village to fight and continue the struggle for Malaysia, for the country I love," the PKR de facto leader said.
He will be flying back to Malaysia today.
Anwar will face the Federal Court on October 28 and 29 for its decision against the Court of Appeal's ruling that overturned his sodomy acquittal.
The High Court on January 9, 2012 had acquitted Anwar of sodomising his former aide, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan. Anwar had been charged with committing sodomy on Saiful at the Desa Damansara condominium in Bukit Damansara, between 3.10 pm and 4.30pm on June 26, 2008.
Anwar was sentenced to five years’ jail when the Court of Appeal on March 7 overturned his sodomy acquittal.
The three-man Court of Appeal bench allowed Anwar a stay of execution pending his appeal at the Federal Court. He was released on a RM10,000 bail.
The prosecution has also cross-appealed for a heavier sentence. Sodomy carries a maximum sentence of 20 years’ jail. If the Federal Court upholds his conviction, it will be the end of Anwar's political career.
Anwar told The Telegraph that he was hopeful, nevertheless, because "history shows that dictators don't last forever".
"Even though our electoral process is fraudulent, we still have a vast number of Malaysians who support the opposition, who are fighting for change.”
- TMI

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