THOUGH his ignorance was never in question, the exculpation in the Anwar Ibrahim hearing (full story, page 23) came as the surprise to those of us who have been closely following events in Malaysia.
In 1998, Anwar faced the identical ordeal, which landed him solitary confinement for fifteen years. His real crime was launching the popular uprising opposite the rule of then budding minister, Mahathir Mohamed.
Viewed as the threat to the statute party's status quo, Anwar was sacked as emissary budding apportion as well as finance minister, arrested as well as sentenced after the hearing which was marred by domestic interference, forgery of evidence, blackmailing, coercion as well as torture of witnesses, nuisance of defence lawyers, as well as warding off to confess declare sworn statement favourable to the accused.
Anwar's stream hearing mimicked most of those irregularities and, therefore, left most of us expecting the worse in allege of today's verdict.
In Jan last year I, along with my colleague Mehmet Celebi, penned the short report for the Obama administration department on the credentials of the hearing as well as why the United States contingency criticism opposite this charade.? On examining all the justification accessible to us as well as conducting the series of "off the record" interviews, it became very clear to us very fast which the entire basement of the stream hearing was questionable.
We thus resolved which the continuation of this hearing was the clear as well as present danger to democracy converging in the country regarded as being one of the only entirely grown democracies in the Muslim world. An attribute which Dr Anwar himself could take credit for.
The quip kid of Malaysian governing body represents the rare multiply in Muslim politics. He is domestic figure who traverses the lines of Muslim traditio! nalism a s well as liberalism some-more effectively than almost any one else on the tellurian scene today.
In this year of the Arab Spring, the figure similar to Anwar, unburdened by the every day distraction of the trial, can be the potent as well as credible voice for reform in Malaysia as well as opposite the Muslim world.
Dr Azeem Ibrahim is the fellow as well as part of of the house of directors at the Institute of Social Policy. He is not associated to Anwar Ibrahim
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