Malaysia should drop its sodomy charges against opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, said a joint statement by three former leading figures on the international stage."We have heard with deep concern the charges filed against the honourable Anwar Ibrahim," said the statement by former Canadian prime minister Paul Martin, ex-World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, and Michel Camdessus, the former head of the International Monetary Fund.
They said the charges were brought "in spite of the fact that similar unsubstantiated charges filed 10 years ago against him were overturned by the Federal Court."
They therefore hoped that "the government of Malaysia will ... demonstrate, by dropping the charges... an exemplary sense of respect for the rights of the individual which are so important to the international standing of Malaysia."
Confidence in Anwar's moral integrity
The three reiterated their "full confidence in his (Anwar's) moral integrity."
Anwar spent a night in custody last week after being arrested over accusations that he sodomised a 23-year-old male aide.
He was released on bail but the police have yet to charge him.
The events threaten to derail Anwar's spectacular political comeback, after March elections that handed the opposition a third of parliamentary seats.
Anwar was sacked as deputy premier in 1998 and jailed on sodomy and corruption charges widely seen as politically motivated. The sex conviction was overturned by the nation's highest court in 2004.
- AFP
tunku : wolfensohn and camdessus has spoken.when will wolfowitz will come up and defense his boy.america will back anwar till the end.to them homosexuality is not a sin, so its ok.they have miss the opportunity to 'invade' this country in 1998 , now they hope anwar would be the pm and they could ''invade ''malaysia this time around as malaysia will be ruled by their puppet.
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What? Is he that honourable? I can't believe that we should all believe this guys statement (the IMF, the US, bla3.. )
Based on what charges you think that he is honour? He was jailed for power abuse and corruption, not for the previous sodomy case in 1998.
it's puzzling that somehow Anwar got many supports from foreign leader.and the biggest is from the States.
is really Anwar is the snitch especially for USA?
no one can be sure of that.only he knows.
Anwar + US = X independence, endless suffering.
I guess not only the Rakyat knew of what exactly happening but the rest of the world also thought the same.
When the current government get involve with the current case about Anvar regardless, it would be more difficult to convince the Rakyat of our intention to rejuvenate our BN towards Rakyat.
The big question by the Rakyat that i could gather, they are puzzling about the need to explain about the case by the Prime Minister, his Deputy, Interior Minister, and certain Supreme Council members. They should subscribe to basic human rights philosophy that is anyone should be presumed inoccent until proven guilty. By doing like they are doing now, even invited all foreign ambassador to explain is totally wrong. We should just let our justice system to take care of it.
Whether we like it or otherwise our leaders have given a wrong picture to Rakyat and foreigners from their action started from Day 1 of this Anvar saga.
"Rice, the US and other (ir)relevant international paries, stop meddling with our affairs. Who the hell you all think you are, we can handle our own issues!
And who the hek is Anwar gaining so much international media attentions? For the wrong reasons at that! Rooting for the underdog is it...??"
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