Anwar’s Sodomy Charge Complicates Political Struggle
The struggle between Malaysia’s leading opposition politician and the ruling forces he is trying to unseat intensified Thursday when Anwar Ibrahim was formally charged in Kuala Lumpur with "carnal intercourse against the order of nature," a crime punishable by 20 years in jail.
The charge, widely expected for weeks despite mounting accusations that it wa…
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