July 4, 2007

First, I wanted to talk about the Red Mosque in Islamabad, but the case is not yet finish tonight. I will come back to this topic tomorrow. So today it will be :

ONCE MORE THE MALAYSIAN JUSTICE IS THE POLITICAL POWER'S PUPPET
Once more, Anwar Ibrahim has his case thrown out
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6268108.stm

Anwar was the deputy of the ex-prime minister Mahathir in the running party, the UNMO, and in the government as vice-prime minister and minister of Finance. But when came the financial crisis in 1997, the two men differed on the way to solve the problem for Malaysia.

The following year, during the annual UNMO congress, a pamphet named Fifty reasons why Anwar Ibrahim cannot be Prime minister accusing him of corruption and sodomy. Few after, in early September 2008, he has been epulsed from the government and from the UNMO.

He then launched his own party, the People's Justice Party, the first inter-racial party and reformist party in Malaysia. But he was arrested and condemned in a highly polically motivated try that provocated a lot of protest of officials in Asean and elwhere in the world.

On september 2 2004, he was cleared of sodomy charge and freed but he continues to be barred from office until 2008, after the next general election because the High Cour refused to reconsider his appel againt his corruption sentence for corruption.

Despite the fact that Anwar has been cleared of sodomy in
2005, Mahathir talking on Anwar in late 2005 said "Imagine having a gay prime minister, Nobody would be safe" When Anwar filed his diffamation suit, Mahathir then submited a petion to the High Court to prevent it from going to trial.

Today, a judge granted Mahathir that application, saying tha the former prime minister's remarks were fair comment made in the public interest !!!!<br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/07/04 22:16