Back to the future in Malaysia with Anwar sodomy trial II

                                                                          By Barani Krishnan A decade ago, Malaysia’s former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim was on trial for sodomy and corruption in a trial that exposed the seamy side of Malaysian justice and the anxieties of a young country grappling with a crushing financial crisis and civil unrest.  Anwar is Malaysia’s best known political figure, courted in the U.S. and Europe and probably the only man who can topple the governme

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