Malaysia’s Anwar to face sodomy trial in July

Posted on March 10, 2009
Filed Under Anwar Ibrahim |

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will go on trial for sodomy in the High Court in July, his lawyer said Tuesday, after a long wrangle over where the case should be heard.

The trial date was set after Anwar last week lost his bid to have the politically charged case heard in a lower court.

His supporters have said they fear authorities will be able to manipulate the case more easily in the High Court.

“The High Court today fixed the hearing dates for July 1 to 24. We have not been given the list of witnesses to be called by the prosecution,” lawyer Sankara Nair told AFP.

“We are deeply disappointed with the court’s decision last week,” he added.

Anwar has rejected the sodomy allegations levelled by a 23-year-old former aide — the same charge that saw him jailed a decade ago — as a government conspiracy to derail his plan to topple the ruling coalition.

The opposition leader is currently out on bail pending his trial.

Here we go again. Are we going to be treated to the spectacle of a stained mattress being dragged to the court house this time around?

I think the law criminalizing sodomy should be done away with. It is an archaic law, and there are numerous people engaging in anal sex and do we see them being dragged to court for such practices?

And did the young man who claimed to have been sodomized by Anwar claimed rape? If not, why are we being treated to this circus again?

Aren’t there more important things to focus on, like the tanking economy, then titillate the public with the sexual conduct of two grown men, that is, if the allegation is even true! :evil:

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