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Malaysian antithesis personality loses final justice interest opposite sodomy conviction
- Updated: December 15, 2016
Kuala Lumpur : Jailed Malaysian antithesis personality Anwar Ibrahim mislaid his final bid for leisure on Wednesday when a sovereign justice deserted his interest to set aside his sodomy self-assurance and five-year jail term.
A five-member row of judges ruled unanimously that there was no consequence in Anwar’s focus for a examination of his 2014 conviction, his final authorised choice for an acquittal. He will now have to offer out a remaining 16 months of his jail term.
“This is not a fit or correct box for this justice to practice a fundamental office to trigger a review,” Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin, a Chief Judge of Malaya, pronounced as he review excerpts from a 60-page ruling. Anwar, once a rising star in a statute party, is a biggest hazard to Prime Minister Najib Razak and his coalition, after heading a three-party antithesis fondness to overwhelming electoral gains in 2013.
He was convicted and jailed for sodomizing a former aide, a assign that Anwar and his supporters contend was a politically encouraged try to finish his career. “This is not a finish of a highway … we have pleaded and reiterated my ignorance though a law has abandoned my pleas,” Anwar told reporters in a justice after a verdict.
“This is a prolonged travel to freedom,” he said. His wife, children and grandchildren were in court. Crowds of supporters collected outward in a uncover of support for their 69-year-old leader. A former statute celebration emissary primary minister, Anwar’s authorised troubles began shortly after he fell out with afterwards primary apportion Mahathir Mohamad in a late 1990s and was sacked.
He afterwards campaigned opposite crime and nepotism and led a national “reformasi”, or reform, criticism movement. He was after jailed for a initial time on charges of sodomy and graft. (Reporting by Joseph Sipalan; Writing by Praveen Menon; Editing by Paul Tait)