On 9 January 2012, after a lengthy two-year trial, Anwar Ibrahim was acquitted of charges of sodomy against his 23-year-old aide, Mohd Saiful. The acquittal was a shock not only to Anwar-who expected to go to jail-but to most international observers who were convinced he would be found guilty. This book recounts both the first sodomy episode (1998-2004) and the Sodomy II trial (2008-2012). It then takes up the story after the acquittal, describing the events that led to the Malaysian Court of Appeal overturning the ruling in March 2014-convicting Anwar of the charge and sentencing him to five years' imprisonment-the final appeal against the conviction in the Federal Court of Malaysia In October 2014, and the guilty verdict that was finally delivered on 10 February 2015. Anwar is now in prison serving a five-year sentence. The 2014 conviction ruled him out of contesting a by-election for the parliamentary state seat of Kajang and plans to become the chief minister of Selangor. At the same time his lawyer, Karpal Singh, was convicted of sedition, which disqualified him from parliament. Together, these events were seen as an attack on the key leaders of the opposition parties.
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978-981-4561-61-7 (9789814561617)
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Mark Trowell QC is a leading criminal lawyer based in Western Australia. Over the years, he has acted as an international observer of leading criminal cases for LAWASIA and the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Malaysia, Thailand and Sri Lanka. He was an observer at both sedition trials of veteran Malaysian advocate Karpal Singh (2002/2014). He was also an observer at the appeal of Anwar Ibrahim against his earlier conviction and sentence (2004), at his second trial for sodomy (2010 - 12), and more recently at the prosecution appeal in March 2014, which overturned his acquittal and sentenced him to five years' imprisonment. He was an observer at Anwar's final appeal against conviction in the Malaysian Federal Court in October 2014. He is the author of Sodomy II: The Trial of Anwar Ibrahim, published in 2012.
CONTENTS PAGE: Foreword 9 Preface 23 Timeline of events 27 Key players in the trial of Anwar Ibrahim 37 sodomy I (1998-2004) 01 Sodomy I: The first episode 44 the sodomy II trial (2008-2012) 02 Sodomy II: Anwar charged again 60 03 The international reaction 68 04 Pre-trial skirmishes and start of trial 74 05 Continuing fight for disclosure during trial 93 06 The affair 112 07 Was it Anwar's DNA? 125 08 Expulsion from parliament 141 09 Judge says case to answer 149 10 Defence case begins; prosecution applies to reopen case 154 11 Final submissions 192 12 The acquittal 206 13 The saga continues 223 The final play (March 2014-March 2015) 14 Government wins 13th General Election 240 15 Attempts to disqualify prosecutor 245 16 A week of action 266 17 Anwar convicted and sentenced to five years in prison 280 18 Karpal convicted of sedition 294 19 Failure to expunge 'homosexual' remark from record 308 20 "A good lawyer dies in the saddle" 316 21 Sedition crackdown to silence dissent 321 22 The final appeal at the Federal Court of Malaysia 338 23 The verdict 358 Interview with Anwar Ibrahim (9 July 2014) 363 Acknowledgements 375 About the author 376
