MALAYSIA: MALAYSIAN PROSECUTORS DROP OUTSTANDING CORRUPTION AND SODOMY CHARGES AGAINST JAILED FORMER FINANCE MINISTER ANWAR IBRAHIM

Record ID: 872672

  • Title: MALAYSIA: MALAYSIAN PROSECUTORS DROP OUTSTANDING CORRUPTION AND SODOMY CHARGES AGAINST JAILED FORMER FINANCE MINISTER ANWAR IBRAHIM
  • Date: 12th May 2001
  • Summary: (W3) KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (MAY 12, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. STILL PHOTO OF ANWAR IN WHEELCHAIR AFTER HEARING ABOUT CHARGES BEING DROPPED 0.04 2. STILL PHOTO OF ANWAR WAVING AFTER HEARING ABOUT CHARGES BEING DROPPED 0.10 3. STILL PHOTO OF ANWAR SMILING AFTER HEARING ABOUT CHARGES BEING DROPPED 0.16 4. STILL PHOTO OF ANWAR IN WHEELCHAIR AFTER HEARING ABOUT CHARGES BEING DROPPED 0.21 ***VIDEO AS INCOMING*** KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (FILE) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 5. SV ANWAR'S WIFE WAN AZIZA ARRIVING AT COURT 0.31 6. LV ANWAR BEING TAKEN TO COURT 0.37 7. MCU ANWAR ADDRESSING A RALLY (PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A SOUNDBITE) 0.45 8. SLOW MOTION OF ANWAR BEING TAKEN TO PRISON 0.54 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th May 2001 13:00
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  • Location: KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
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  • Country: Malaysia
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  • Reuters ID: LVA9R5RD3A7T81OH1A143KRDWRI2
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  • Story Text: Malaysian prosecutors have dropped outstanding
    corruption and sodomy charges against jailed former finance
    minister Anwar Ibrahim after a brief hearing held in an
    improvised court room in prison.



    Malaysian prosecutors dropped outstanding corruption
    and sodomy charges against jailed former finance minister
    Anwar Ibrahim on Saturday (May 12) after a hearing held in an
    improvised court room in prison.

    Anwar, who has a slipped disc confining him to a
    wheelchair, had been scheduled to appear before the Kuala
    Lumpur Court but was deemed unfit to travel.

    Prosecutors requested the withdrawal of four unresolved
    charges of corruption and one of sodomy against Anwar, who
    appeared in court flanked by lawyers and his wife, Wan Azizah
    Wan Ismail. They gave no reason for the dropping of the
    charges.

    Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's former deputy, serving a
    15-year jail sentence for sodomy and corruption convictions he
    says were trumped up, left hospital for prison on Thursday
    after undergoing nearly six months of treatment.

    Once prime-minister-in-waiting, Anwar was sacked in 1998
    and indicted on charges he says were made up after a clash
    with Mahathir.

    Mahathir denies this, saying his erstwhile protégé is
    immoral and unfit to rule.


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