Anwar bebas : Apa komen Aziz Bari?

Memang patut pun Mahkamah Tinggi membebaskan Anwar semalam sebab tiada kes pun. Hanya rekaan semata-mata oleh musuh politik. Namun Saiful Bukhari masih lagi nak pertahankan kerja keji dan terkutuknya memfitnah Anwar melalui Mahkamah Rayuan bagi mencabar keputusan 901. Jangan sekali-kali kita lupa akan fakta sebenar yang membuktikan tuduhan terhadap Anwar hanyalah rekaan semata-mata oleh rejim Najib Rosmah dengan mengupah si budak durjana itu. Video berikut mendedahkan fakta tersebut.

Dan apa pula komen Prof Dr Aziz Bari berhubung pembebasan Anwar semalam?

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"Dari awal lagi rakyat - baik yang tahu undang-undang atau rakyat biasa - dapat melihat yang kes Anwar ini luar biasa dan tidak mengikut undang-undang; malah sejak awal lagi apabila Anwar disiasat oleh polis jadi keputusan ini tidak dapat lari dari dilihat sebagai kes politik dan bukan kes jenayah biasa. Saya melihat ini satu cubaan untuk mengurangkan kes buruk ke atas Barisan Nasional sebab kalau Anwar dihukum BN akan lebih parah. Tetapi pembebasan Anwar ini juga akan menyulitkan BN kerana ia akan menyebabkan BN dilihat memanipulasi mahkamah dan menyebabkan rakyat marah; mengapa kes ini diteruskan sedangkan dari mula lagi hujah yang mempertikai kes ini telah disuarakan.

Keputusan ini mengesahkan apa yang Anwar katakan selama ini; BN tetap bersalah meskipun ia akan mengatakan keputusan mahkamah ini menunjukkan mahkamah bebas.

Dan kita jangan lupa yang selama ini UMNO menggunakan kes ini untuk mengejek dan mempertikai Anwar. Keputusan ini kemenangan buat Anwar dan BN masih berada di dalam parit; ia tidak melepaskan BN yang sedia terbelit dalam pelbagai masalah dan rasuah. Keputusan ini juga belum tentu menunjukkan yang badan kehakiman bebas sebab kalau ia bebas ia tidak perlu memanggil Anwar membela diri.

Dari satu sudut ia membuat kita tertanya-tanya; apakah keputusan itu akibat sikap rakyat yang menunjukkan kebencian dan penentangan terhadap apa yang berlaku ke atas Anwar? Ini menebalkan tanggapan bahawa mahkamah boleh ditekan dan dipengaruhi; ia tidak bebas. Dan kita jangan lupa bahawa kebebasan kehakiman ialah satu persepsi; kalau rakyat sangsi dan tidak yakin mahkamah tidak boleh berbuat apa-apa."

Mengapa Najib Rosmah mesti jadi saksi? - Anwar

Kalau bercakap di media, bukan main lagi si anak Tun Razak ni nak tunjuk hero rupanya bacul macam takde buah. "Saya tak takut Anwar". "Saya bukan tak mahu berdebat dengan Anwar, cuma bimbang nanti Anwar demam", antara kenyataan yang pernah dibuat oleh si bapa anak Altantuya tu. Kalau betul anak jantan, datanglah ke mahkamah jadi saksi dalam prosiding pembelaan diri Anwar. Soalnya, nape Najib Rosmah cuba mengenepikan sepina atas mereka?

Anwar Ibrahim hari ini memfailkan afidavit jawapan berhubung permohonan Perdana Menteri dan isterinya untuk mengketepikan sepina yang disampaikan kepada mereka supaya tampil sebagai saksi pembelaan dalam perbicaraan kes liwat.

Dalam dokumen yang ditandatanganinya petang ini di hadapan pesuruhjaya sumpah di Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur, Anwar berkata, Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor diperlukan untuk membantu kes berkenaan.

Ini dikaitkan dengan maklumat yang dibekalkan oleh bekas pembantu Najib, Datuk Khairil Annas Jusoh, ketika diwawancara oleh peguam Anwar semasa proses merakamkan kenyataan daripada saksi-saksi yang berpotensi.

Khairil Annas telah mengesahkan bahawa dia membawa pengadu kes liwat itu, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan untuk bertemu dengan Najib, yang ketika itu adalah timbalan perdana menteri.

“Saya seterusnya menyatakan bahawa saya telah dinasihatkan oleh peguam-peguam saya, nasihat yang saya percayai adalah tepat dan benar, bahawa Datuk Khairil Annas Jusoh telahpun memaklumkan kepada mereka di dalam temuramah tersebut bahawa beliau telahpun membawa pengadu berhumpa dengan pemohon paad 26 Jun 2008 untuk lebih kurang sejam di kediaman pemohon.

“Oleh yang demikian, saya percaya terdapat banyak lagi perkara yang telahpun dibincangkan antara pemohon dan pengadu tersebut semasa pertemuan tersebut yang saya yakin adalah relevan dan materrial kepada pembelaan saya,” katanya dalam afidavit itu.

Menurut Anwar lagi, Najib pada mulanya menafikan bertemu dengan Saiful tetapi kemudian menukar pengakuan dan berkata Saiful telah memohon bantuan bagi mendapatkan biasiswa.

Justeru, peguamnya mahu mendapatkan penjelasan lanjut.

Tambahnya lagi, semasa wawancara pada 12 Ogos lalu, Najib dan Rosmah tidak bekerjasama dalam memberikan kenyataan kepada peguamnya.

Anwar, berkata beliau mempunyai hak di sisi undang-undang untuk memanggil saksi dan sehubungan itu mengarahkan peguamnya untuk mensepina Najib dan isterinya.

- malaysiakini

Fitnah II : Anwar berjaya menjerat musuhnya

Ramai juga yang minta komen saya tentang pendirian Anwar memilih untuk membela dirinya melalui keterangan tidak bersumpah. Saya rasa elok juga saya berkongsi pendapat mengenai pendirian Anwar tersebut.

Saya akui awalnya saya juga agak terkejut dengan pendirian Anwar tersebut. Namun setelah mengikuti keterangannya tersebut saya harus akui bahawa tindakan Anwar amat amat bijak. Saya percaya pendirian itu dibuat dengan perkiraan yang mendalam dengan mengambil kira sejak awal lagi perbicaraan Anwar dilihat melanggar norma-norma atau piawaian perbicaraan yang adil . Memberi keterangan dengan tidak bersumpah sudah tentu merupakan opsyen yang terbaik untuk Anwar dalam kondisi sebegitu.

Musuh Anwar memulakan serangan di atas pendirian Anwar tersebut . Dengan nada sinis mereka memperli kononnya Anwar takut untuk disoal balas oleh pendakwaraya. Musuh beliau menyatakan Saiful lebih berani dari Anwar kerana beliau memberikan keterangan dengan bersumpah dan rela disoal balas oleh Karpal Singh. Ya, ia satu hujah yang menarik tapi malangnya hujah tersebut bertolak dari qiyas atau analogi yang tidak betul atau dalam bahasa arabnya dipanggil qiyas ma'al fariq. Mengapa?

Isu Saiful berani memberi keterangan bersumpah tidak timbul kerana sebagai saksi pendakwa , undang-undang mewajibkan beliau memberi keterangan bersumpah. Makna mudahnya Saiful tidak ada pilihan kecuali wajib memberi keterangan bersumpah. Terpaksa memberi keterangan secara bersumpah bukan indikator keberanian seseorang.

Kedudukan Anwar sebagai pihak yang dituduh berbeza dengan kedudukan Saiful. Tidak seperti Saiful undang-undang memberi Anwar tiga pilihan yang sah untuk membela diri iaitu sama ada memberi keterangan dengan sumpah ( yang boleh disoal balas ) atau memberi keterangan dengan tidak bersumpah ( yang tidak boleh disoal balas ) atau hanya berdiam diri. Hatta jika Anwar memilih untuk berdiam diri hakim tidak boleh secara automatik membuat kesimpulan bahawa Anwar bersalah kerana seorang hakim masih perlu meneliti semula keterangan pendakwa sebelum membuat keputusan.

Musuh Anwar juga berhujah bukankah keterangan bersumpah lebih kuat nilainya dan jika Anwar benar-benar tidak bersalah kenapa beliau takut untuk memberi keterangan bersumpah dan boleh disoal balas oleh pendakwa.

Sekali lagi ia hujah yang menarik tetapi malangnya hujah tersebut gagal melihat keseluruhan proses perbicaraan Anwar . Melihat pendirian Anwar yang memilih untuk memberi keterangan tidak bersumpah secara terpisah dengan keseluruhan proses perbicaraan Anwar bukan sahaja tidak wajar malahan secara jelas ia satu hujah yang dangkal.

Hakikatnya bagi saya kerana kepercayaan bahawa dirinya tidak bersalah mendorong Anwar mengambil pendirian tersebut. Mana-mana tertuduh yang tidak bersalah dengan mudah dijatuhkan hukuman bersalah dalam perbicaraan yang tidak adil.

Jika perbicaaraan Anwar memang dari awal mengikut piawaian perbicaraan yang adil hujah musuh Anwar itu mungkin ada keabsahannya. Namun dengan pelbagai perkara pelik dan tidak masuk akal berlaku dalam kes Anwar pendirian Anwar bukan sahaja wajar malahan amat tepat. Mari kita ambil satu contoh kepelikan dari siri-siri kepelikan yang berlaku dalam kes Anwar iaitu isu tawaran saksi saksi pendakwa kepada pasukan peguambela Anwar.

Bukankah pendakwa raya telah menawarkan kepada pihak peguambela Anwar beberapa orang saksi mereka seperti Najib , Rosmah, Musa Hassan dan beberapa orang lain. Berdasarkan prinsip undang-undang jenayah dan piawaian perbicaraan yang adil saksi-saksi pendakwa ini sewajarnya bersedia dipanggil oleh pihak pembela dan mereka juga wajar menjawab soalan-soalan peguambela apabila dipanggil untuk temubual.

Peliknya dalam kes Anwar ini saksi saksi yang ditawar oleh pendakwa ini boleh memilih untuk tidak ingin menjadi saksi pihak pembela dan tidak mahu menjawab soalan-soalan peguambela Anwar semasa sessi temubual.

Tindakan pelik saksi saksi ini malangnya timbul dari keputusan pelik Hakim yang menyatakan bahawa saksi saksi seperti Najib dan Rosmah ini boleh memilih untuk tidak menjawab soalan-soalan peguambela Anwar.
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Keputusan Hakim tersebut menyebabkan tawaran saksi- saksi pendakwa seperti Najib dan Rosmah kepada pasukan peguambela Anwar tidak ada apa apa nilai dan hanya sia-sia dan membuang masa. Apa gunanya pendakwaraya menawar saksi-saksi mereka yang enggan bersuara dan apa gunanya pula untuk peguambela Anwar memanggil saksi-saksi yang enggan bersuara ( baca kecut untuk bersuara ).

Hakikatnya bukan Anwar yang tidak berani memberi keterangan bersumpah sebaliknya Najib, Rosmah , Musa Hassan dan Rodwan yang takut untuk memberi keterangan sama ada secara tidak bersumpah di luar mahkamah iaitu dalam sessi temubual atau secara bersumpah di dalam kandang saksi di mahkamah. Malangnnya musuh Anwar tidak nampak ironi ini. Mereka tidak habis habis 'menyalak' supaya perbicaraan disegerakan sedangkan tindakan Najib, Rosmah, Musa Hasan dan Rodwan ini antara penyumbang besar kepada kelengahan perbicaraan
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Seperkara lagi Anwar sudah punya pengalaman memberi keterangan bersumpah sebanyak dua kali sebelum ini dan beliau amat arif permainan kotor musuhnya. Memberi keterangan bersumpah akan dikawal oleh mantra 'tidak relevan' yang akan kita dengar berulang-ulang kali seperti dua perbicaraan beliau yang terdahulu. Bayangkan jika keluar dari mulut Anwar misalnya 'ada konspirasi nak aibkan saya...tidak relevan..' macam mana TV3 boleh ada siri khas tentang Saiful' ..tidak relevan.. begitulah yang saya percaya ada di dalam pemikiran Anwar.

Memberi keterangan secara tidak bersumpah tidak boleh dikawal oleh mantra 'tidak relevan'. Anwar bebas menentukan rentak dan iramanya tanpa diganggu gendang 'tidak relevan'. Hakikatnya apa yag Anwar katakan tersebut itulah yang paling ditakuti oleh musuh-musuhnya .

Malang sungguh musuh Anwar kerana penantian mereka bahawa Anwar akan terperangkap dalam jerat mereka tidak berlaku. Yang berlaku adalah Anwar yang kini menjerat mereka dan sehingga artikel ini ditulis seluruh manusia di seantero alam kini mula menghakimi sistem kehakiman negara ini dan para aktor -aktor yang terlibat dalam perbicaraan Anwar. Syabas Anwar !

oleh Hanipa Maidin - Peguam PAS

Fitnah II : Bukti pendakwaraya tidak lengkap, diubahsuai - peguam

KUALA LUMPUR: Pasukan peguam Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mendedahkan bahawa bukti yang dibawa ke mahkamah oleh pendakwa dalam kes Fitnah II sebenarnya tidak lengkap dan diubahsuai. Ia diketahui melalui saksi kelima peguam bela iaitu pakar molekul genetik, Dr Brian McDonald dari Australia.

Dr McDonald dalam keterangannya memberitahu mahkamah, calitan kapas yang diambil dari tubuh pengadu, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan sepatutnya terus diletakkan di atas slaid kaca dan diteliti di bawah mikroskop selain disimpan di dalam botol plastik oleh pegawai penyiasat.

Penelitian di bawah mikroskop itu menurut Dr McDonald, membolehkan doktor atau saintis mengetahui terus samada calitan yang diambil itu merupakan calitan air mani atau pun tidak.

Tindakan pegawai penyiasat, Jude Pereira menyimpan sampel itu di pejabatnya selama dua hari pada suhu bilik juga menimbulkan keraguan kerana ia mungkin diubahsuai dan tercemar.

Peguam kepada Anwar, Sankara Nair ketika mengulas berkata, langkah itu sepatutnya dilakukan kerana ia prosedur biasa dalam mana-mana kes serangan seksual.

Namun, katanya, dalam kes Fitnah II ini ia tidak pula dibuat.

“(Sepatutnya) boleh tengok terus, untuk tahu samada (sampel) mengandungi air mani atau tidak.

“Pada peringkat itu, ia kepunyaan siapa tidak penting kerana ia boleh diketahui kemudian.

“Di Malaysia, kita tidak lakukan perkara ini tetapi di Australia mereka buat,” kata Sankara ketika ditemui di perkarangan Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur hari ini.

Dalam kenyataannya pada sebelah petang, Dr Brian MacDonalds mempertikai kandungan DNA yang tinggi dalam sampel air mani yang dianalisa Jabatan Kimia Malaysia.

Menurutnya, sampel air mani yang berada di dalam rektum seorang lelaki selama lebih 56 jam sebelum calitan air mani itu diambil dengan putik kapas sepatutnya mempunyai kandungan DNA yang sudah merosot.

(Saiful diperiksa pada 28 Jun, 2008 – selepas lebih dua hari dari masa kejadian liwat didakwa berlaku pada 26 Jun 2008).

Ditambah pula ia disimpan selama lebih dua hari oleh pegawai penyiasat Jude Pereira di pejabatnya pada suhu bilik dan tidak disejukbeku, sampel itu sepatutnya sudah tidak boleh digunakan kerana terdapat kemungkinan ia sudah dicemari bakteria lain yang tumbuh, kata Dr MacDonald.

Ini berlawanan dengan laporan Ahli Kimia, Dr Seah Lay Hong yang mendapati terdapat banyak DNA ‘segar’ sewaktu beliau menganalisa sampel dari HKL yang diserahkan Jude Pereira.

Perkara ini, kata Sankara Nair, adalah tidak tepat dan tidak masuk akal.

Ia juga meyakinkan Sankara dan pasukannya bahawa bukti itu diubahsuai sebelum ia sampai ke Jabatan Kimia untuk dianalisa.

“Kerana itu kami katakan ia (mungkin) diubahsuai. Bagaimana ia diubahsuai, kami tidak tahu tetapi kami yakin ia diubahsuai.

“(Lebih meragukan), Dr Seah sendiri sewaktu memberikan keterangan dahulu enggan memberikan penjelasan terperinci bagaimana beliau menganalisa sampel itu.

“Beliau juga enggan menerangkan bagaimana kit ujian yang digunakan,” kata Sankara. - keadilandaily

Fitnah II : Sperma Saiful dalam dubur sendiri - Pakar

KUALA LUMPUR: Hari ini masuk hari ke-5 Ketua Umum KEADILAN, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dipanggil membela diri dalam perbicaraan Fitnah II yang dihadapinya di Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur.

Hari ini, pakar DNA, Dr Brian Mc Donald menyambung keterangannya di Mahkamah bahawa ada kemungkinan sperma pengadu, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan ditemui pada duburnya sendiri.

Beliau menjelaskan perkara itu kerana Ahli Kimia yang menjalankan analisa pada sampel, Dr Seah Lay Hong, tidak menjalankan analisanya dengan betul.

Menurutnya, Dr Seah tidak mengasingkan sel-sel sperma daripada sel bukan sperma yang ditemui pada rektal pengadu, dengan mengandaikan adanya sel-sel ‘epithelial’ pada pecahan (sperma).

Semalam saksi ke empat pembela itu mempersoalkan prosedur yang dijalankan untuk menganalisa sampel DNA yang diambil dari tubuh Mohd Saiful.

Menurutnya, sampel yang sudah tercemar tidak boleh diterima sebagai bukti.

Beliau mempertikai kandungan DNA yang tinggi dalam sampel air mani yang dianalisa Jabatan Kimia Malaysia.

Ini kerana menurutnya, sampel air mani yang berada di dalam rektum seorang lelaki selama lebih 56 jam sebelum calitan air mani itu diambil dengan putik kapas sepatutnya mempunyai kandungan DNA yang sudah merosot.

Turut dibangkitkan adalah mengenai kelayakan makmal ujikaji DNA Jabatan Kimia yang tidak diakreditasi dengan pensijilan ISO17025. Sijil itu dikeluarkan oleh American Society of Crime Laboratories Directors (ASCLD). - keadilandaily

Fitnah II : Makmal DNA Jabatan Kimia tiada kelayakan antarabangsa

KUALA LUMPUR: Makmal DNA Jabatan Kimia Malaysia, Petaling Jaya hari ini didapati tidak mempunyai akreditasi antarabangsa sewaktu menganalisa sampel kes Fitnah II. Ia sekaligus menambahkan keraguan yang sedia ada terhadap laporan dari Jabatan Kimia yang digunakan pendakwa raya dalam pendakwaan kes Fitnah II terhadap Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Perkara itu didedahkan konsultan molekular genetik dari Australia, Dr Brian McDonalds sewaktu memberi keterangan dari kandang saksi.

Menurutnya, mana-mana makmal yang menjalankan ujikaji ke atas DNA akan diakreditasi dengan sijil ISO17025 yang diperakui di peringkat antarabangsa.

Pensijilan ISO17025 itu pula dikeluarkan oleh American Society of Crime Laboratories Directors (ASCLD).

Walau bagaimanapun, kata Dr McDonalds, pemeriksaan beliau dengan ASCLD mendapati Jabatan Kimia Malaysia pernah memohon sijil itu dari ASCLD pada Oktober 2005 kerana sijil akreditasi dahulu telah tamat.

Makmal Jabatan Kimia kemudian diberikan masa lima tahun untuk memenuhi piawaian yang perlu dipenuhi untuk mendapat akreditasi tersebut.

Namun, selepas lima tahun, Jabatan Kimia masih gagal memperolehi sijil itu dan mereka diberikan tempoh lanjutan sebanyak dua kali yang akan berakhir bulan Oktober ini.

Peguam Anwar, Sankara Nair sewaktu masa rehat mahkamah memberitahu wartawan bahawa pendedahan ini berlawanan dengan pengakuan ahli kimia, Dr Seah Lay Hong yang mengaku makmal DNA Jabatan Kimia mempunyai akreditasi antarabangsa.

“Sekarang kita periksa, makmal ini tidak pernah mempunyai ISO17025. Sedangkan, masa kita soal balas dahulu, beliau mengaku ada,” kata Sankara Nair.

“Jadi, adakah ujian yang dijalankan menepati piawaian antarabangsa. Tentunya tidak,” kata Sankara.

Sebelum ini, mahkamah turut digemparkan bagaimana sampel DNA Anwar diambil secara tipu helah dari tubuh beliau sewaktu direman selama satu hari di lokap Bukit Aman pada 16 Julai 2008.

Polis pada waktu itu sengaja menahan Anwar untuk mendapatkan sampel rambut, DNA beliau dari botol minuman, berus gigi dan juga tuala muka.

Tidak cukup dengan itu, calitan dari tubuh pengadu, Saiful Bukhari juga tidak dikendalikan mengikut prosedur standard operasi (SOP) apabila pegawai penyiasat, DSP Jude Pereira menyimpan sampel calitan itu di pejabatnya selama dua hari pada suhu bilik sebelum menyerahkannya ke Jabatan Kimia Malaysia.

Beliau juga didapati membuka botol sampel dan menandakannya semula sebelum dihantar ke makmal untuk dianalisa. - keadilandaily

Hadir sekadar tunjuk muka tapi bacul...

Bila bercakap dalam media, bukan main lagi. Pendek kata segala apa yang dikata ibarat firman yang mesti dipatuhi atau diterima bulat-bulat oleh rakyat tanpa soal. Sapa yang pertikai, dianggap derhaka pada negara. Itulah Najib Rosmah yang berlagak macam tuhan bila menuduh Anwar meliwat Saiful pada 26 Jun 2008.

Berikut adalah fakta yang wajib diketahui rakyat agar jangan termasuk dalam golongan yang boleh dihukum qazaf kerana terus percaya dengan fitnah liwat ini tanpa usul periksa.

Fakta 1

Saiful bertemu Najib pada 24 Jun 2008 di JPM, kononnya mahu minta tolong Najib dapatkan biasiswa untuk menyambung pengajian di IPTA. Lucunya si Saiful ni telah dibuang daripada universiti kerana gagal dengan mata GPA 1.75 je. Di mana logiknya pergi jumpa Najib nak minta tolong dapatkan biasiswa sambung belajar.

Fakta 2

Selepas jumpa Najib, Saiful buat laporan Polis pada 28 Jun 2008 dan mendakwa Anwar telah membalun pungkoknya pada 26 Jun 2008 di sebuah kondominium mewah. Peliknya nape budak bahalol ni buat repot pada 28 Jun, selepas 2 hari dibalun.

Fakta 3

Selepas buat repot, Saiful pergi ke HKL untuk buat pemeriksaan doktor. Semasa di kaunter HKL, si budak jahannam ini sambil berlagak memberitahu kakitangan di situ bahawa dia datang atas arahan Najib. Selepas diperiksa, dua orang doktor pakar mengesahkan dalam laporannya bahawa tiada sebarang penembusan pada pungkoknya. Dan leporan ini selari dengan laporan yang dibuat oleh Dr Osman, doktor pakar Hospital Psrawi.

Fakta 4

Pada tarikh 26 Jun 2008, hari yang didakwa berlakunya kejadian liwat di sebuah kondominium mewah milik Hj Hasanuddin, Anwar sebenarnya bersama 9 orang yang lain hadir ke situ untuk bermesyuarat. Mereka bersama Anwar dari jam 12.30 tengahari hingga 5.00 petang. Malah tuan rumah bersama isteri dan pembantu rumahnya turut ada sama. Dan Saiful memang hadir tapi tidak masuk pun ke dalam rumah tersebut. Kehadirannya hanya sekadar untuk dirakam oleh kamera CCTV ketika masuk dan keluar lif sebagaimana yang diarahkan oleh para konpirator laknat di bawah arahan Najib Rosmah. Ikuti video berikut untuk lebih jelas.

Dan banyak lagi fakta yang membuktikan bahawa kejadian liwat itu tidak berlaku. Kalau di mahkamah negara lain yang bebas, dah lama Najib, Rosmah, ACP Rodwan, Saiful dan lainnya masuk penjara kerana terlibat dengan jenayah fitnah mengemukakan bukti palsu. Malangnya, mahkamah di Malaysia la ni dah jadi mahkamah beruk.

Dan semalam media melaporkan pasangan Iblis No.1 negara telah hadir ke bangunan Mahakmah Putrajaya untuk ditemubual oleh barisan peguam Anwar. ACP Rodwan turut hadir sama. Ingatkan mereka berani untuk ditemubual tapi rupanya sekadar hadir untuk nak tunjukkan kepada rakyat bagi mendapatkan 'political mileage' saja. Lepas ni adalah modal untuk berbohong pada rakyat melalui media perdana bahawa beliau telah membuktikan kesediaan untuk ditemubual oleh peguam Anwar.

Apa yang sebenarnya berlaku di mahkamah semalam?

Berikut adalah laporan berita Malaysiakini oleh Hafiz Yatim;

PM dan isteri tak mahu jadi saksi pembela

Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dan isterinya, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor memberitahu peguam yang mewakili ketua pembangkang yang juga defendan, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim bahawa mereka tidak mahu menjadi saksi pembela.

Ini didedahkan oleh peguam utama Anwar - Karpal Singh - dan juga peguam Sankara Nair.

Karpal dan Sankara, serta peguam kanan Datuk Param Cumaraswamy dan Ram Karpal, berada di dalam bilik yang sama apabila saksi-saksi dibawa masuk, seorang demi seorang.

Karpal berkata, apabila peguambela tiba di kompleks mahkamah, Najib dan Rosmah sudahpun berada di situ.

"Najib masuk dahulu dan apabila kita tanya, beliau kata tak mahu jadi saksi pembela dan tidak mahu ditemubual," kata Karpal.

Kemudian tiba giliran Rosmah dan beliau memberitahu perkara yang sama, dan diikuti pula oleh bekas Ketua Polis Melaka, Datuk Mohd Rodwan Mohd Yusof.

Ketiga-tiga mereka (Najib, Rosmah dan Rodwan) berada di dalam bilik dan mereka tidak ditemani peguam.

Najib dan Rosmah tiba kira-kira jam 2.55 petang dan beredar kira-kira jam 3.28 petang.

Pembantu mereka menunggu di luar semasa mereka menghadiri temubual ringkas itu.

Karpal berkata mereka terkejut kerana tiada tanda-tanda yang Najib dan Rosmah akan datang hari ini.

"Biasanya, mereka akan memberi notis terlebih dahulu," kata peguam kanan itu.

Karpal menyifatkan Rosmah dalam keadaan 'teramat tegang' ketika diajukan soalan dan pada satu ketika, beliau (Rosmah) berkata, "jangan buli saya, Encik Karpal".

Kata Karpal, beliau tidak tahu mengapa Najib dan Rosmah takut untuk datang ke mahkamah, ketika mengulas keengganan mereka untuk menjawab soalan.

"Jadilah rakyat yang bijak dan bermaklumat"

Anwar Handed a Court Setback

Malaysian judge rules formerly blocked DNA evidence in sodomy trial is admissible

Malaysian High Court Judge Mohamad Zabidin Mohamad Diah reversed himself Wednesday to allow the prosecution to admit into evidence items containing DNA taken from Anwar Ibrahim in the opposition leader's sodomy trial.

The evidence was taken from a toothbrush, towel and mineral water bottle taken from a jail cell when Anwar was detained overnight in July 2008 after being accused of rape by Mohamad Saiful Bukhairy Azlan, a 25-year-old former aide to Anwar.

On March 9, Zabidin handed Anwar what appeared to be a major victory by throwing out the purported evidence, ruling it was inadmissible because it had been taken without the defendant's permission from items in the jail cell. According to Malaysian law prior to Anwar's arrest, DNA was not allowed to be taken without the permission of the defendant.

The 63-year-old Anwar faces up to 20 years in prison if he is convicted, which would effectively end his political career.

"This is a case of legal adventurism for political mileage," said Sankara Nair, an Anwar defense lawyer. "There is no power or law in Malaysia that compels a person to give DNA. I do not know why, but it has never been done in Malaysian law for a person to give his or her DNA sample on a court order," he said."

Zabidin's reversal presumably means that the DNA evidence can be compared in court with DNA samples taken from Saiful's anus and analyzed by Seah Lay Hong, a chemist and prosecution witness. Seah was forced by defense attorneys in February that the DNA could have come from as many as 10 different people, including himself.

Today, however, Zabidin said the earlier ruling was reversed in light of evidence that Anwar's detention was for a lawful purpose, meaning that obtaining the DNA without Anwar's permission was legal.

"Those items and all the evidences relating to the items are now admissible," Zabidin told the court. "My earlier ruling reversed."

The defense had charged that DNA taking was unlawful as he was not under arrest at the time. It is unclear if the police have powers to collect DNA from arrestees under the penal code The judge, however, dismissed a prosecution request for the court to instruct Anwar to give his DNA. Although the government pushed through a law after Anwar's arrest that allows the prosecution to compel defendants to do so, the opposition leader's case comes under the jurisdiction of the previous law.

Prosecutors said they would conclude their portion of the trial on March 24, allowing the defense to present its case. The trial has been underway for more than 13 months and has been marked by a long series of missteps by the prosecution, including questions over the DNA evidence, how and when it was taken from Saiful, where it was stored and other issues.

Saiful has testified that although two days had lapsed between the alleged offence and the taking of evidence, he had neither eaten, drunk water nor gone to the bathroom in that time. He has also testified that he met both Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, as well as Rosmah's best friend prior to the time of the alleged meeting with Anwar. He also testified that he met with a police official who had played a key role in planting DNA evidence against Anwar in the latter's 1998 sodomy case, which has been branded a travesty by international human rights organizations.

The reversal of the decision came in the wake of Anwar's demand for a police investigation Tuesday of a video purportedly showing him having sex with a Chinese prostitute in a dingy Kuala Lumpur hotel room. Anwar denied he was the person in the 22-minute video, saying he was home with his family and staff aides on Feb. 21, when the video was made, and that he could prove it.

Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, said Wednesday he had asked a special task force to get to the bottom of the case as soon as possible. It was complicated today when leaders of Anwar's Parti Keadilan Rakyat called a press conference to accuse Shazyrl Eskay, a Malaysian businessman formerly close to Anwar, and Abdul Rahim Thamby Cik, an UMNO stalwart and chief minister of the state of Malacca, of being behind the video in an effort to entice other members of Anwar's party to defect to UMNO.

Johari Abdul, a PKR member of parliament, said Shazryl and Abdul Rahim had approached him to ask him to view the video, in which Anwar or his stunt double perform the so-called "advanced lotus" sex act to the benefit of four hidden cameras, and to bring more PKR members with him.

"Rahim told me he wanted to take me to see the prime minister, and that he would take care of all of my financial and security needs, should I agree to jump ship," Johari was quoted as saying in a story on the internet site Malaysian Insider.

The opposition members insisted that Anwar is not the man in the video. The opposition leader, they said, has a bad back which prevents him from adventurous sexual acrobatics.

- asiasentinel

The Unfortunate Prosecution of Anwar Ibrahim

The Malaysian government should be the big loser in a trial that is a travesty

Even to a Malaysia grown inured to the scandalous ins and outs of deviant sexual congress, Mohamad Saiful Bukhairy Azlan may have given new meaning to the phrase "go f**k yourself."

Saiful, a 25-year-old former aide to opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, is the chief prosecution witness in Anwar's marathon sodomy trial. Dr Seah Lay Hong, a chemist and prosecution witness, was forced by defense lawyers to acknowledge on the stand in late February that DNA found in Saiful's rear end could have come from as many as 10 different people – including himself.

Saiful has done a pretty good job on his government, his country and Anwar. That is because the case is becoming a major embarrassment, calling up memories of Anwar's 1998 sodomy trial, which was universally branded a travesty by international human rights organizations. Mistakes made over supposedly conclusive DNA evidence in the long-running trial call into question whether the evidence could survive in a rational court of law. Other testimony indicates that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansour, among others, may have played a personal role in bringing the case to court.

Last Tuesday, High Court Judge Zabidin Mohamid Diah handed Anwar a major victory by throwing out purported DNA evidence supposedly proving he had sex with the 25-year-old Saiful. He ruled the evidence was inadmissible because it had been taken without Anwar's permission from items in his jail cell when he was first arrested on Saiful's complaint in July 2008.

Despite the plethora of mistakes, however, the government faces a dilemma. If it folds the prosecution, it hands Anwar a huge victory and gives considerable ammunition to opposition charges that the government and particularly Najib cooked the evidence to attempt to drive Anwar from politics. Accordingly, rather than giving up now that the last physical link between Anwar and Saiful seemingly has been discredited, the prosecution is refusing to fold.

On Friday, prosecutors moved in court to attempt to force Anwar to provide an additional DNA sample to replace the one that Zabidin threw out. Government prosecutor Yusof Zainal Abiden asked Zabidin to review his decision and to compel Anwar to hand over a sample.

That also raises a danger for Anwar if the prosecution appeals to Malaysia's Federal Court, Malaysia's supreme court. The court has shown a notorious malleability to the political system, ruling against the opposition in important cases, including one which in effect handed the control of the state of Perak to the ruling coalition after the opposition had won it in the 2008 national election.

Saiful, who was an aide to Anwar prior to filing the charges, has acknowledged in court that he met with Najib and his wife, Rosmah, on June 24, 2008, at Najib's home two days before the alleged sodomy. He also acknowledged that he had met with Rosmah's close confidant, the former track star Mumtaz Jaafar, as well.

He also acknowledged meeting secretly with Rodwan Mohd Yusof, a senior assistant police commissioner, twice before the alleged offence took place. Rodwan became famous in Anwar's 1998 trial when he illegally removed Anwar's DNA samples from forensic custody and planted them on a mattress allegedly used by Anwar for a homosexual dalliance. To protect the integrity of the prosecution's case, the presiding judge, Augustine Paul, expunged the entire DNA evidence at the time.

Under Malaysian law, police were previously barred from taking DNA samples from defendants without their permission. When Anwar refused to give a DNA sample, complaining that previous samples used in a 1998 case against him had been tampered with, the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition pushed a bill through the parliament allowing police to collect samples in criminal cases without the consent of the suspect.

However, since the alleged offense took place prior to the passage of the bill, presumably Anwar would still be exempted from giving DNA evidence.

In any case, the prosecution's conduct in handling evidence collected from Saiful's body and clothes has been woefully inept. Even if they were to take another sample from Anwar, it would be difficult to compare it to the evidence taken from Saiful.

According to testimony in court, no evidence was taken from Saiful's body until 56 hours after the alleged sodomy. When DNA traces of semen were allegedly found in his mouth, he said he had neither washed, brushed his teeth nor gone to the bathroom between the time of the offense and the period when he was tested. While DNA samples can still be taken effectively within 72 hours, in this case the handling of the evidence seems to have been casual at best.

Although Seah found evidence of DNA from other unknown males in Saiful's rectum, she said she had not tested to find out anybody else's identity. Asked by a defense attorney whether the DNA evidence could result in 10 different combinations or individuals, Seah agreed.

Last Friday, the investigating officer, Jude Pereira said that after collecting evidence from Saiful, he had put the swabs in a metal filing cabinet in the Brickfields police headquarters for 43 hours, ignoring an order by Siew Sheue Feng, a forensic pathologist, to put them in a freezer. United States Federal Bureau of Investigation guidelines state that "environmental factors, such as heat and humidity, can also accelerate the degradation of DNA."

Pereira acknowledged that degradation of the samples could have occurred because he ignored the pathologist's advice as well as standing orders of the Malaysian Inspector General.

Before being derailed by the current charges, Anwar led the opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition to a historic sweep of five Malaysian states, winning 82 parliamentary seats in 2008 national elections and breaking the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition's two-thirds majority hold on parliament.

However, the opposition – a coalition of the largely Chinese Democratic Action Party, the Islamist Parti Islam se-Malaysia and Anwar's own Parti Keadilan Rakyat has stumbled as Anwar, preoccupied by his court cast, has been unable to focus completely on politics. Anwar has also been hampered by a six-month suspension from parliament over allegations that he had misled the body.

The case has now droned on for 13 months. Along with the suspension and a range of other actions, the opposition is increasingly neutralized. The next big test is expected to be a state election in the East Malaysian state of Sarawak, which must be held before the end of 2011.

- asiasentinel

Setelah semuanya gagal, kini datang video palsu?

Setelah gagal dengan projek Fitnah II apabila mahkamah menolak DNA yang dicuri, BN didakwa cuba menghancurkan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dengan video yang didakwa palsu.

Peguam yang juga naib presiden PKR, Sivarasa Rasiah dalam Twitternya secara langsung menghalakan serangannya kepada Presiden Umno, Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

"Setelah gagal dengan projek fitnah II, Datuk Seri Najib mengubah hala serangannya. Video yang ditokok tambah mula disebarkan hari ini," tulis Sivarasa dalam Twitternya.

Hari ini, tiga kumpulan wartawan ditayangkan video seks yang didakwa antara Anwar dengan seorang wanita Cina yang dikatakan dirakam di sebuah bilik hotel.

Ia ditayangkan di hotel mewah, Carcosa Sri Negara pagi ini di depan kumpulan para wartawan kumpulan demi kumpulan.

Berikutan itu, pihak yang mendedahkan rakaman tersebut mendesak ahli politik berkenaan meletak jawatan dalam tempoh seminggu jika tidak mahu klip video didedahkan kepada umum.

Berdasarkan modus operandinya, tekanan ini dikenakan kepada Anwar agar beliau berundur dari politik dan jangan mengganggu gugat kepimpinan BN yang ada. Jika Anwar bersetuju berundur, video ini dikatakan tidak akan dilepaskan kepada umum.

Selain tekanan ini, beberapa siri tekanan lain juga dikatakan akan terus dikenakan ke atas Anwar sehingga beliau berhenti dari memberikan gugatan kepada pemimpin BN yang ada.

Harakahdaily pernah dimaklumkan perkara ini sebelum ini. Ketika dibincangkan dengan beberapa pemimpin kanan PAS, mereka yakin, tekanan terhadap Anwar sudah terlalu berlebihan untuk memusnahkan beliau.

"Ia sudah over done," kata seorang pemimpin kanan PAS.

Video seks

Pagi ini, wartawan menonton video selama 20 minit itu secara bergilir mengikut kumpulan.

Menurut laporan media, klip video itu lebih jelas daripada rakaman video presiden MCA Dr Chua Soi Lek yang juga dirakam melakukan hubungan seks dengan seorang wanita di sebuah hotel di Batu Pahat dan diedarkan sekitar Disember 2007.

Wartawan yang telah menyaksikan video itu berkata lelaki dalam video itu kelihatan seperti pemimpin utama pembangkang tersebut.

Wartawan kanan dan editor akhbar dari Utusan Malaysia, New Straits Times dan Berita Harian adalah kumpulan pertama yang melihat klip tetapi enggan mengulasnya ketika ditanya mengenainya.

Wartawan juga diminta menyerahkan semua alat-alat elektronik seperti telefon bimbit dan kamera serta pen mereka dan buku nota mereka.

Mereka seterusnya diminta memakai jubah atas pakaian mereka sebelum mereka dibenarkan masuk ke bilik rakaman tersebut ditayangkan.

Kumpulan kedua pula terdiri daripada wartawan The Malaysian Insider, Free Malaysia Today, dan seorang editor kanan dari agensi berita nasional, Bernama.

AFP telah diberitahu bahawa rakaman video tersebut akan ditayangkan kepada media antarabangsa pada jam 2 petang ini.

BN sangat tersepit

"BN mesti sangat tersepit. Mereka fikir boleh musnahkan DSAI dan Pakatan dengan video palsu," tulis Sivarasa yang juga anggota Parlimen Subang lagi.

Pengarah Perhubungan PKR, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad dalam twitter juga mengulas isu itu.

"Fitnah 1 gagal. Agen asing gagal. Fitnah II sedang gagal. Sekarang, video," tulis beliau dalam Twitternya.

Anggota Parlimen dari PAS dari Titiwangsa, Dr Lo' Lo' Mohamad Ghazali juga memberikan ulasan dalam Twitternya.

"Apa nak jadi negara kita. Orang lain sibuk nak bina semula negara yang musnah, kita sibuk nak musnahkan maruah dan kredibiliti pemimpin. Fitnah bawa punah pada semua," kata beliau.

Seorang pemimpin PAS ketika mengulas isu ini pula berpendapat, strategi BN silap dalam isu ini kerana gagal memahami saikologi orang Melayu dalam menilai isu seks.

"Sepatutnya seks biasa dulu, lepas itu barulah liwat....ini tidak terbalik kot...," kata beliau.

- hakakahdaily

WikiLeaks dedah Anwar ‘masuk’ perangkap kes liwat

KUALA LUMPUR, 12 Dis — Tuduhan liwat kedua ke atas Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, yang sedang didengar sekarang, didakwa sebagaii hasil kerja “perangkap” membabitkan ahli-ahli politik yang memusuhinya, demikian menurut laporan eksklusif sebuah akhbar harian Austarlia yang membawa pendedahan WikiLeaks.

Menurut laporan Sun-Herald semalam, pendedahan kabel Jabatan Negara Amerika Syarikat menunujukkan pegawai-pegawai risikan Singapura memberitahu rakan sejawatan mereka dari Australia bahawa Anwar terlibat dalam perbuatan yang dikenakan tuduhan itu — tindakan yang beliau menafikan sama sekali.

“Jabatan Risikan Kebangsaan Australia juga mengatakan bahawa kelakuan itu adalah akibat perangkap oleh musuh-musuh Dr Anwar,” lapor akhbar itu, yang merupakan sebahagian daripada produk kumpulan Sydney Morning Herald.

Laman web WikiLeaks telah menyiarkan sekitar 250,000 kabel diplomatik dari Amerika Syarikat, pendedahan mengenai pandangan dan ulasan yang amat mengejutkan, melibatkan pelbagai negara dan banyak pemimpin dan ketua kerajaan. Sekitar 1,000 kabel pula berkaitan dengan Malaysia termasuk sebahagiannya mengenai keengganan Putrajaya bekerjasama dengan beberapa pihak utama dunia.

WikiLeaks diasaskan oleh wartawan Australia Julian Assange, yang sekarang ditahan Scotland Yard berhubung dakwaan kes seksual yang dibawa oleh Sweden.

Semalam, Presiden Amerika Syarikat Barack Obama menyifatkan tindakan WikiLeaks sebagai sesuatu yang “amat dikesali” ketika beliau berbual dengan rakan-rakan sejawatannya menerusi telefon, yang turut bersetuju pendedahan itu tidak harus menjejaskan hubungan dengan Washington.

Diplomat Amerika Syarikat di Kuala Lumpur juga melahirkan sentimen yang sama kepada Wisma Putra meskipun mereka memandang berat tuduhan liwat kedua yang dikenakan ke atas Anwar.

Anwar, 63, dituduh meliwat bekas pembantu peribadinya, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, 25, di Unit 11-5-1 Desa Damansara Condominium di Jalan Setiakasih, Bukit Damansara di sini, antara 3.01 petang dan 4.30 petang pada 26 Jun 2008.

Kes itu sedang didengar di Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur dan akan disambung bulan depan.

Tuduhan kali pertama dikenakan sedekad yang lalu, selepas beliau dipecat sebagai timbalan perdana menteri dan timbalan presiden Umno.

Anwar, yang mengetuai Pakatan Rakyat (PR) belum lagi mengulas pendedahan terbaru oleh akhbar Australia ini.

Menurut akhbar itu, kabel melibatkan kedudukan Anwar merupakan salah satu daripada beberapa kandungan yang mendedahkan pandangan mengejutkan pegawai-pegawai kanan Singapura termasuk dakwaan bahawa “Malaysia berada dalam keadaan terkeliru dan bahasa ekoran ahli-ahli politik yang tidak kompeten.”

Singapura dan Malaysia berpisah pada 1965, hanya dua tahun selepas membentuk Malaysia. Kini mempunyai hubungan kuat tetapi tidak membenarkan akhbar masing-masing diedarkan di negara mereka.

Kabel mengenai kes liwat Anwar ini bertarikh November 2008 iaitu lima bulan selepas kes liwatnya terdedah dan disiasat polis.

Ia menyebut, “Australia mengatakan bahawa perkhidmatan risikan Singapura dan (pemimpin kanan Singapura) Lee Kuan Yew memberitahu ONA dalam pertukaran pandangan bahawa pemimpin pembangkang Anwar sememangnya melakukan perbuatan itu, yang beliau didakwa sekarang.”

ONA merujuk kepada Pejabat Risikan Kebangsaan Australia.

Dokumen itu juga mengatakan bahawa Singapura memberitahu ONA yang mereka membuat penilaian itu berasaskan risikan teknikal, yang mana kemungkinan dikaitkan dengan komunikasi yang dipintas, kata akhbar itu.

“ONA membuat penilaian, dan rakan-rakan sejawatan mereka dari Singapura bersetuju, ia adalah (satu) kerja (dia) diperangkap dan kemungkinan dia tahu mengenainya, tetapi bagaimanapun dia terlibat,” kata kabel itu.

Minggu lalu, Anwar mengundang Ahli Parlimen Bebas Australia Selatan, Senator Nick Xenophon untuk memantau perbicaraan itu dan mengadakan sidang media di lobi Parlimen.

Anwar, ketika memperkenalkan tetamunya itu berkata, kehadiran Xenophon ke Kuala Lumpur adalah untuk memerhati perbicaraan kes liwatnya serta bermesyuarat bersama-sama anggota Parlimen pembangkang serta mengadakan pertemuan dengan beberapa pemimpin masyarakat.

“... oleh kerana perbicaraan itu telah ditangguhkan ekoran permohonan kita untuk Hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Datuk Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah menarik diri daripada terus mendengar perbicaraan kes liwatnya, beliau memutuskan untuk berada di Parlimen bagi memerhatikan prosiding dan perbincangan,” katanya.

Xenophon yang turut mendakwa dirinya seorang peguam berkata, tuduhan liwat terhadap Anwar yang juga Ketua Pembangkang itu harus dikendalikan secara adil kerana perjalanan kes itu turut diperhati masyarakat dunia.

Beliau adalah antara 50 Ahli Parlimen Australia yang memprotes supaya tuduhan terhadap Anwar digugurkan pada Februari lalu kononnya bagi mencerminkan pemerintahan berkredibiliti kerajaan Malaysia.

Pada Disember 2009, sebulan selepas penilaian ringkas ONA mengenai kesnya, Anwar mengecam Perdana Menteri Australia Kevin Rudd kerana tidak menemuinya ketika melawat negara itu.

Beliau menuduh Rudd “memuaskan” pemimpin-pemimpin berasuah Malaysia dengan tidak mengendahkan beliau.

- themalaysianinsider

DPP dropped over alleged ‘affair’ with Saiful

27 July - Deputy Public Prosecutor Farah Azlina Latif was dropped today from the team prosecuting Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for sodomy after allegations surfaced last week that she was romantically involved with complainant and chief witness Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail told reporters today that the junior prosecutor was removed to prevent negative public perception of the Sodomy II prosecution team.

“The Attorney-General’s Chambers cannot compromise on any issue that can tarnish the image or credibility of the department and we are looking at such matters very seriously.

“This can be very difficult for us but any personal matter, if it can have any implication in whatever form on the department, will be handled very seriously,” he told reporters at a press conference at his office, here.

Abdul Gani (pic) said Farah Azlina had to be dropped not because she was found guilty, but to avoid any negative public perception on the prosecution team.

“This move is also to ensure that the smooth running of the case is not affected,” he said.

However, he said Farah Azlina had very limited involvement in the case, pointing out that she only assisted in recording all notes on the proceedings.

“She had no access at all to the investigation papers or any confidential information that the prosecution has,” he said.

Abdul Gani also said that an internal investigation will be held to look into Raja Petra’s claims and action will be taken accordingly.

“We will make sure there will be an internal investigation into the matter and if there is something wrong, action will be taken,” said the A-G but he did not elaborate on what action would be taken if the allegations were true.

The Malaysian Insider reported the allegations last week after fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin alleged that Farah was having an “affair” with Saiful.

Yesterday, Anwar’s lawyers demanded that the Attorney-General respond to Raja Petra’s claims.

Lead counsel for Anwar’s defence team Sankara Nair had said that if the matter was left unaddressed, it could affect the on-going trial proceedings which is set to continue on August 2.

Anwar is being prosecuted by an eight men prosecution team comprising Mohd Yusof, Datuk Nordin Hassan, Mohamed Hanafiah Zakaria, Wong, Noorin, Mira Mirna Musa, Naidatul Athirah Azmad and Farah Azlina Latif.

Saiful and Farah have not made any comments on the allegations.

Anwar, the 62-year-old PKR de facto leader, is charged with sodomising Saiful at Unit 11-5-1 of the Desa Damansara Condominium in Jalan Setiakasih, Bukit Damansara here between 3.01pm and 4.30pm on June 26, 2008.

The former deputy prime minister has denied the charge, describing it as “evil, frivolous lies by those in power” when the charge was read out to him. He is charged under section 377B of the Penal Code and can be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years’ jail and whipping upon conviction. The trial is taking place 18 months after Anwar was charged in court in August 2008.

Anwar was charged with sodomy and corruption in 1998 after he was sacked from the Cabinet and was later convicted and jailed for both offences. He was freed in September 2004 and later resurrected his political career by winning back his Permatang Pauh parliamentary seat in a by-election in 2008, which had been held in the interim by his wife.

He had earlier led the opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat, to a historic sweep of five states and 82 parliamentary seats in Election 2008.

- themalaysianinsider

What Anwar's Trial Means For Malaysia

A guilty verdict would be a serious step backwards for this aspiring Muslim democracy

When I visited Malaysia last month, it was clear that not just Anwar but also most observers expect a guilty verdict in August. At that point, the question is whether he remains free on bail during his appeal or is jailed immediately.

By John R. Malott, Wall Street Journal

The trial of Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s opposition leader and his nation’s best-known and most respected international figure, is scheduled to resume this week in Kuala Lumpur.

The Malaysian press dubs the affair “Sodomy II,” for it appears to be a repeat of the Muslim democrat’s 1998-99 trials, when he was convicted on corruption and sexual charges. Sentenced to 15 years in prison, Anwar’s conviction later was overturned, and he was released after six years in solitary confinement.

As the U.S. ambassador to Malaysia when Mr. Anwar first was arrested and put on trial, everything I knew then and know now leads me to conclude that this trial also is an attempt to sideline him politically.

Already convicted by the government-controlled media, Anwar and his defense team have been denied access to the evidence that the government possesses, including police and medical reports, surveillance tapes, and even the witness list. Malaysia does not have a jury system. The verdict will be rendered by one judge, appointed by the same government that wants to remove Anwar from the political scene.

While a handful of human rights groups and some Australian parliamentarians have condemned the trial, there has been little interest at the broader international level. The Obama administration has been silent.

When I visited Malaysia last month, it was clear that not just Anwar but also most observers expect a guilty verdict in August. At that point, the question is whether he remains free on bail during his appeal or is jailed immediately.

A charismatic campaigner, Anwar led his coalition to near victory in Malaysia’s last parliamentary elections in 2008, when the opposition took 47% of the popular vote and gained 62 seats. The government’s new political game plan seems to be to put Anwar in jail and the opposition in disarray, call snap elections, and ride to victory.

Today Malaysia gets little attention in the world press. The lingering image is of an Asian economic success story, a moderate Islamic country and aspiring democracy, and a multiracial society where harmony prevails. Unfortunately, that is not the case today. Malaysia is a nation adrift.

Once one of the world’s dynamos, Malaysia’s economy has underperformed over the past decade, with an average annual growth rate of 4.5%. Much of that growth was the result of government spending, which has pushed Malaysia’s debt level to 54% of GDP. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has remained relatively flat over the past 15 years, while flows into Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam have soared. To make matters worse, Malaysia experienced a net outflow of $6 billion in FDI capital in 2008.

Malaysia desperately needs to upgrade its skills base and innovation capabilities, but almost 500,000 Malaysians—nearly 2% of the entire population—left their country for good between 2007 and 2009. Malaysian experts believe most of these émigrés were skilled ethnic Chinese and Indian Malaysians, concerned by economic decline and growing racial and religious tensions.

Worried about losing political support, the ruling party has responded by appealing to the more base instincts of the country’s Malay Muslim majority. For example, it told Malaysia’s Christians that they may no longer use the word “Allah” for God, even though the word existed in Arabic long before Islam arose. A new militant group called Perkasa, which claims that Malay rights are under threat from the Chinese and Indian minorities, has won backing from former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed and other members of the ruling party.

For Malaysia and the world, there is more at stake in Anwar’s trial than whether one person is convicted. Malaysia is at a crossroads in its history. The road that it chooses matters not only for some 30 million Malaysians, but for the entire world. The country could be a model for the 600 million people of Southeast Asia and for the entire Muslim world, if it returns to the promising course it was on 15 years ago. But a guilty verdict for Anwar means that the corruption and cronyism that now pervades Malaysia, its lack of political freedom and its economic decline, will continue. The country’s non-Malay citizens will continue to seek a better haven overseas.

In 1998, Anwar said, “If this can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.” That is no less true today. If Anwar is denied his freedom, then Malaysia will continue to be denied her freedom and her promise.

Mr. Malott was the U.S. ambassador to Malaysia from 1995 to 1998.

Azmin Ali diugut Polis...

Apa nak jadi dengan tanahair ni, aku pun tak tahu. Peguam Negara, Hakim dan Polis bukan lagi menjalankan tugas mereka sebagaimana sepatutnya, tetapi sudah menjadi pecacai hina bagi melindungi kepentingan dan kekuasaan UMNO dalam negara. Tidak wujud lagi keadilan dalam negara. Keseluruhan sistem perundangan dan keadilan telah dilacurkan semahunya oleh pemerintah UMNO. Lihat saja betapa hancurnya keadilan negara kita sejak hari pertama DSAI dipecat sebagai TPM pada 2 September 1998 lalu. Rakyat yang bangkit menentang kezaliman dibalas dengan semburan air asid dari water-cannon, bom asap, dibelasah dengan cotar dan dilontar ke dalam lokap. Inilah Malaysia negaraku yang diperintah oleh manusia bangsat dan celaka dalam UMNO.

Rasuah, penyelewengan, pembunuhan dan fitnah dah jadi darah daging UMNO. Lihat saja betapa jijiknya fitnah dan dakwaan yang direka-reka terhadap Anwar pada 1998 lalu. Polis di bawah Rahim Noor telah mengugut individu yang dekat dengan Anwar supaya mengaku diri mereka telah diliwat. Dan begitulah juga dalam kes liwat 2, seorang budak bodoh digunakan untuk merealisasikan kehendak sang penguasa bangsat dan celaka.

Dalam kes liwat 1, bukan setakat Azizan Abu Bakar, Sukma dan Munawar Anes yang diugut Polis agar mengaku diliwat, malah Azmin Ali sendiri turut diugut dan dipaksa mengaku pernah diliwat oleh Anwar.

Azmin pernah diugut polis supaya mengaku diliwat Anwar

MACHANG, 25 Feb: “Saya pernah diugut polis supaya mengaku pernah diliwat Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim ketika ditahan pada 16 September 1998," kata Naib Presiden Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Mohamed Azmin Ali.

“Pegawai polis meminta saya menandatangani surat mengakui diliwat. Saya diugut akan ditahan di bawah ISA selama 20 tahun kalau tidak mahu menurut kehendak mereka,” katanya pada ceramah isu semasa di padang Majlis Daerah Machang malam tadi.

Menurutnya, beliau tidak sanggup untuk menurut kehendak mereka sehingga didera begitu rupa ketika dalam tahanan.

Malah katanya, ketika itu dua lagi kenalan rapat dengan Anwar iaitu Dr Munawar dan Sukma juga diminta membuat pengakuan serupa bagi mengaibkan bekas Timbalan Perdana Menteri terbabit.

Menurutnya, beliau hanya dibebaskan Mahkamah Tinggi kemudiannya selepas didapati tahanannya dilakukan secara salah.

“Tidak lama kemudian hakim yang membebaskan saya telah ditukar ke negeri lain,” katanya di hadapan ribuan penduduk tempatan yang memenuhi segenap ruang padang.

Oleh itu, Azmin yang juga anggota parlimen Gombak berkata, versi kedua dakwaan liwat terhadap Anwar dipercayai mempunyai elemen-elemen yang serupa pernah dilaluinya lebih 10 tahun lalu.

“Apa yang Umno lakukan sekarang hanya mengulangi kembali tragedi yang pernah dilakukan Hitler dan Lenin bagi mematikan karier politik musuh mereka dengan dakwaan seks.

“Fitnah seks yang digunakan secara berleluasa pemimpin Jerman tersebut bagi menghalang kebangkitan musuh politik mereka,” katanya.

Hadir sama pada ceramah tersebut Setiausaha Agung PKR, Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, Ahli Parlimen Bukit Gantang, Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin, Ketua Dewan Muslimat PAS Kelantan, Siti Zailah Mohd Yusof, Yang Dipertua PAS Machang, Datuk Hassan Muhammad, Adun Temangan, Dr Muhd Fadzli Hassan dan Adun Kemuning, Wan Ahmad Lutfi Wa Sulaiman. -harakhdaily

Aku tak nak sembang pasal sesetengah pimpinan atasan UMNO sebab puak-puak ni memang dah confirm kafir dan celaka... Memang puak-puak celaka ini tak akan berubah sampai dia mampus. Tengok je Mahathir, mana ada berubah... dok lagu tu juga. La ni si mamak tua tu hanya waiting list saja.

Yang aku dok kesian sikit ni pasai ahli dan penyokong UMNO yang buta mata hati sejak dulu, kini dan selamanya... Dah lah dunia tak dapat, lepas tu bila dah mati tak pasai-pasai kena balun dalam kubur kerana menyokong parti syaitan UMNO. Kat Padang Mahsyar pulak dah confirm ikut pemimpin UMNO dalam Jahannam.

Macam pemimpin UMNO, aku tak heran sangat sebab kat dunia mereka kaya-raya. Lepas tu mereka juga dah 'training' tahan panas api neraka. Pasai tu depa tak takut lawan Allah.

Sekali lagi aku nak habaq kat ahli dan penyokong UMNO, terpulanglah pada hangpa semua samada nak percaya atau tak. Kalau hangpa semua masih berdegil nak terus sokong UMNO sampai mati, yakinlah hangpa semua akan duduk dalam Jahannam kelak di Akhirat. Kalau hangpa rasa boleh tahan dengan bakaran api neraka Allah tu, ikut suka hangpalah....

Namun sebelum aku tutup bicara ni, aku nak minta hangpa buka Tafsir Al-Qur'an dan cari Surah Al-Ahzab (33) : ayat 66-68. Ayat ni mengisahkan tentang nasib hangpa semualah yang dok bangang menyokong parti dan pemimpin sesat UMNO.

Janganlah biarkan diri kita tercebur ke dalam lembah kebinasaan. Sebelum terlewat, tinggalkan toghut UMNO dan berhijrahlah kepada cahaya kebenaran Islam.

Di mana duduknya Islam para pemimpin hangpa dalam UMNO tu kalau dah terang-terang memisahkan agama dengan politik. Ulama' muktabar dah dok habaq lama dah...

"Jalan mudah menjadi kafir bila memisahkan agama dengan politik".

Jadi, hangpa semua nilailah sendiri sapa sebenarnya pemimpin UMNO? Islam atau kafir?

Adios...

Malaysian democracy suffers as opposition leader's trial continues

For the second time in his career, Anwar Ibrahim faces apparently fabricated charges of sodomy

For the past two years, there have been hopes and expectations that Malaysia was about to become a proper democracy after more than half a century of one-party rule since independence from Britain in 1957.

But the chances of that are receding as the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition uses the full force of its institutional control against the prime proponent of reform, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

For the second time in his political career, Anwar faces apparently fabricated charges of sodomy -- a crime bringing a maximum 20-year prison sentence in Malaysia -- and it is widely expected Malaysia's compliant courts will do the bidding of their political masters.

At the same time, there is a clear fraying of the carefully crafted ethnic and religious balance between the majority Muslim Malays and large minority ethnic Chinese and South Asian populations that has underpinned the Malaysian political and social compact.

The prospects of genuine reform appeared bright two years ago when Anwar's three-party coalition -- the Pakatan Rakyat, or People's Alliance -- made dramatic advances in the 2008 elections.

The opposition not only robbed the Barisan Nasional of the two-thirds majority it had enjoyed for over 50 years; it also won power in five of Malaysia's 13 states.

This was in itself a remarkable comeback for Anwar, who had been deputy prime minister, finance minister and heir apparent to then-prime minister Mahathir Mohammed in the 1990s.

But the two fell out over how to respond to the Asian economic crisis of 1997.

When Anwar had the audacity to take his opposition to the streets and inspire a new political entity, the People's Justice Party, the full authority of the state was marshalled against him.

Anwar was charged with clearly fabricated allegations of sodomy and of abuse of power. He was convicted in 1998 and spent six years in prison until, with the retirement of his nemesis Mahathir, a court complied with new instructions to erase the conviction and free Anwar.

But his threatening performance in the 2008 election leading the improbable alliance of his own party with the largely Chinese left-of-centre Democratic Action Party and the Muslim fundamentalist Parti Islam se-Malaysia ended charitable instincts in the ruling Barisan Nasional.

Four months after the election, Anwar was arrested and charged with sodomy on allegations made by Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, 25.

In the meantime, the Barisan Nasional changed leaders to try to repair the damage of the 2008 election results.

Najib Tun Razak, a veteran of the United Malays National Organization, which is the lead party in the ruling coalition, was chosen leader and prime minister in April last year.

But Najib came to power with a significant burden of questions surrounding his career.

There was the question of Najib's bodyguards' involvement in the murder of a Mongolian model who was the jilted mistress of one of his close friends and policy advisers, Razak Baginda, when he was defence minister.

There's also the matter of the equivalent of $200 million in commissions apparently paid to Razak when Najib, as defence minister, pushed for Malaysia to acquire three French submarines.

Najib insists, however, there was no conspiracy to frame Anwar when he met Saiful before the charges were laid against the opposition leader.

But when Saiful went to be examined by first one and then another doctor, neither found evidence to support the claim that the young man had been sodomized.

One of the doctors found the political circumstances so troubling he decided to take his family into hiding for several months.

The prosecution then changed the charges against Anwar from sodomy to consensual sex with another male, Saiful, still a crime in Malaysia.

Indeed, a feature of this case so far has been the number of occasions on which the prosecution has changed the times and dates the alleged offence took place in order to try to conform to new testimony.

Last week, Anwar sought to have the charges dismissed, saying it was part of a political conspiracy against him. He told supporters he was not surprised when the court rejected his application.

But the apparent determination of the Najib government to remove Anwar from the political forum has begun to undermine the opposition People's Alliance.

There is no doubt that some of the people who ran for the alliance in the 2008 election and others who crossed the floor to join Anwar afterwards were motivated largely by opportunism.

They figured the People's Alliance might soon have a majority in parliament and be in a position to form a government -- with all the opportunities for advancement that entailed.

But if Anwar is going to be railroaded into prison, those prospects disappear.

There is no one else in the opposition alliance who can hold this ill-matched troika of parties together.

So the rumours on the streets of Malaysia now are that perhaps 10 and maybe more of the opposition alliance's members of parliament are getting ready to cross the floor back into the arms of the Barisan Nasional government, where the prospects for perks are better.

by Jonathan Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun

Bila undang-undang dilacurkan... tentulah orang marah

Adalah menjadi fitrah semulajadi manusia di bumi ini yang mahukan hak asasi mereka terpelihara. Termasuk hak kebebasan bersuara, keadilan tertegak, pemerintahan telus dan berintegriti, keamanan dan kesejahteraan sejagat. Tak kiralah apa warna kulit, bangsa maupun agama mereka, namun hasrat mereka dalam konteks ini adalah sama.

Manusia mana yang tak marah jika mereka melihat ada manusia yang sengaja difitnah dan dituduh secara jahat hanya semata-mata mahu menjatuhkan karier politik mangsa. Lepas tu tertuduh dibicarakan dalam sistem keadilan dan kehakiman yang terbukti diperalatkan semahunya oleh pemerintah bagi mencapai cita-cita jahat mereka. Bukan sekali mangsa dituduh dan didakwa dengan kes yang sama. Ini kali kedua.

Satu dunia dah tahu macamana pemimpin negara memperalatkan Peguam Negara, KPN dan Hakim bagi mencapai matlamat mereka. Dahlah integriti badan kehakiman negara dipersoalkan oleh semua pihak tempatan maupun luar sejak 1988, diikuti dengan kes pembunuhan kejam Altantuya yang mendapat liputan seluruh dunia. Dan hari ini sekali lagi sistem keadilan negara dipersoalkan oleh pihak antarabangsa ekoran Perbicaraan Kes Liwat 2 DSAI.

Najib dan kuncunya sudah tidak boleh bersembunyi di sebalik segala kekejian dan kebusukan yang dilakukannya. Tak usah marah bila Australia mendesak Malaysia menggugurkan dakwaan terhadap Ketua Pembangkang DSAI. Perlu diingat, Malaysia adalah anggota negara Komanwel. Bila negara anggota lain melihat sistem keadilan dan kehakiman negara ini telah 'dilacurkan' dengan sewenang-wenangnya oleh pemerintah untuk menzalimi orang yang tak berdosa, maka ianya sudah menjadi isu antarabangsa yang melibatkan hak asasi manusia itu sendiri.

Atas dasar tanggungjawab bersama sebagai Ahli Parlimen Negara-Negara Komanwel, maka tindakan 50 orang Ahli Parlimen Australia mendesak kerajaan Malaysia menggugurkan kes liwat 2 terhadap Ketua Pembangkang Parlimen Malaysia adalah wajar.

Ekoran desakan tersebut, maka 'melalak tak tentu hala' para penjilat dan pengampu sang penguasa zalim dengan pelbagai versi kenyataan media. Perkasa (salah satu cawangan tak rasmi UMNO) akan melakukan protes di hadapan bangunan Pesuruhjaya Australia esok.

Mustapha Mohamed pula menegaskan kepada masyarakat antarabangsa bahawa kes liwat ini bertentangan dengan Islam dan budaya masyarakat timur. Manakala sorang lagi Menteri Kabinet, Shafie Afdal meminta pihak luar menghormati undang-undang Malaysia.

Sejak bila pulak para pemimpin UMNO ni pandai cakap pasal Islam. Oopss, aku terlupa... memang perangai golongan munafiq macam tu. Lidah mereka bercabang bukan takat dua je tapi lebih dari itu. Kita nak tanya, apakah hukumnya dalam Islam jika menuduh dan memfitnah orang yang tak bersalah dengan tuduhan zina atau liwat ?

Dalam kes liwat 2 ni dah terbukti ianya satu fitnah yang sangat jahat. Seorang doktor pakar swasta dan 3 orang doktor pakar HKL telah mengesahkan bahawa tiada sebarang bukti atau kesan yang menunjukkan Saiful diliwat. Habis tu, apa jadahnya terus dakwa dan bicarakan Anwar ?

Bagaimana masyarakat antarabangsa nak percaya dan hormati undang-undang Malaysia kalau dah terbukti depan mata mereka beserta bukti yang menunjukkan sistem perundangan dan kehakiman dalam negara ini telah 'diperkosa' oleh pemerintah demi kepentingan survival kuasa politik mereka.

Sudah terlampau banyak penyalahgunaan kuasa, penyelewengan, rasuah, jenayah yang dilakukan oleh pihak atasan namun mereka terus bebas lepas melakukan apa saja kerana undang-undang di dalam tangan mereka.

Akhir sekali saya nak bawa hujah Al-Qur'an yang membuktikan betapa pemimpin UMNO ini termasuk dalam golongan yang Allah tegaskan dalam Surah Muhammad (47) : ayat 22 ;

فَهَلْ عَسَيْتُمْ إِن تَوَلَّيْتُمْ أَن تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَتُقَطِّعُوا أَرْحَامَكُمْ

(Kalau kamu tidak mematuhi perintah) maka tidakkah kamu harus dibimbang dan dikhuatirkan jika kamu dapat memegang kuasa kamu akan melakukan kerosakan di muka bumi dan memutuskan hubungan silaturrahim dengan kaum kerabat?

Dalam ayat ini, Zainuddin Hamidi menerangkan ada 4 ciri pemimpin / penguasa yang tidak beriman yaitu ;

1- Bertindak sesuka hati bagi mempertahankan kuasa.

2- Menahan orang tanpa bukti

3- Mengumpul harta kekayaan untuk diri dan keluarga

4- Memecah-belahkan masyarakat

Kes Liwat 2 - Anwar Lantik Peguam PAS

Hanipa Maidin, seorang peguam civil dan syarie telah dilantik oleh Anwar sebagai anggota baru barisan peguamnya dalam perbicaraan kes liwat 2 yang sedang berjalan. Difahamkan barisan peguam yang diketuai oleh Karpal Singh telah bersetuju dengan perlantikan Hanipa. Hanipa Maidin telah mengesahkan perkara ini bila dihubungi oleh The Malaysian Insider.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 13 — Ketua Umum Pakatan Rakyat Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menambah pasukan peguamnya untuk mengendalikan kes liwat beliau dengan mengambil penasihat undang-undang PAS Hanipa Maidin sebagai anggota baru.

Dalam Twitternya malam tadi Anwar berkata, “panel guaman setuju penyertaan Hanipa”.

Hanipa ketika dihubungi The Malaysian Insider juga mengesahkan pelantikan beliau untuk menyertai pasukan peguam Anwar yang sedia ada.

Kini selain Karpal Singh sebagai peguam utama, Anwar juga diwakili Datuk Param Cumaraswamy, Datuk CV Prabakharan, Ram Karpal Singh Deo, Sankara Nair, Mohd Radzlan Jalaludin dan Marisa Regina Fernando.

“Secara rasmi saya memulakan penyertaan (dalam pasukan Anwar) semalam... saya juga hanya akan memainkan peranan macam biasa, macam peguam-peguam lain beliau... sumbangan saya sebagai peguam sahaja,” kata Hanipa.

Selain kes di mahkamah sivil Anwar juga ada memfailkan tuntutan qazaf di Mahkamah Syariah.

“Setakat ini saya hanya akan terlibat dalam kes sivil,” kata Hanipa yang mempunyai kepakaran kedua-dua bidang syariah dan sivil.

Perbicaraan kes liwat Anwar ini, yang kedua sejak 1998, bermula 3 Feb lalu di Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur.

Setakat ini hanya satu saksi sahaja yang memberi keterangan iaitu pengadu itu sendiri, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

Sesi soal balas pembela ke atas Saiful yang sepatutnya bermula Isnin lalu ditangguhkan ekoran permohonan Anwar untuk melucutkan Hakim Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah.

Anwar, penasihat Parti Keadilan Rakyat dan Ahli Parlimen Permatang Pauh, dituduh meliwat Saiful di Unit 11-5-1, Kondominium Desa Damansara, Jalan Setiakasih, Bukit Damansara, antara 3.01 petang dan 4.30 petang pada 26 Jun 2008.

Beliau didakwa mengikut Seksyen 377B Kanun Keseksaan yang boleh membawa hukuman penjara sehingga 20 tahun dan sebatan jika disabit kesalahan.

Perbicaraan bermula 18 bulan selepas Anwar didakwa di mahkamah pada Ogos 2008.

Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah Wilayah Persekutuan menetapkan 17 Feb ini untuk mendengar bantahan awal tiga responden berkaitan permohonan Anwar untuk mendakwa Saiful, bekas pembantunya, atas kesalahan qazaf atau tuduhan palsu berhubung kes liwat yang dihadapinya.

-themalaysianinsider

Day 4 Trial - Karpal applies to disqualify judge, sodomy trial adjourned

UPDATED

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 – The Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trial was adjourned to tomorrow after lead defence counsel Karpal Singh applied to disqualify presiding High Court judge Datuk Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah, citing dissatisfaction with the way the court has dealt with Utusan Malaysia’s coverage of the case.

Karpal made the application at the start of Day 4 of the trial in which the 62-year-old Opposition Leader is accused of sodomising Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan at the Desa Damansara Condominium on June 26, 2008. Anwar has denied the charge, the second time in 12 years he has faced similar charges.

In filing his application, Karpal said it was based on dissatisfaction over how the judge deal with the Utusan Malaysia coverage which “brings to surface an element of danger on the part of the learned trial judge.”

According to the affidavit, Utusan had on February 4 published on its front page an article under the heading “Tak rela diliwat lagi” with the photograph of Anwar and Saiful on either side. On page 3 of, the newspaper also wrote “Berhenti kerana tidak mahu diliwat lagi.”

On the next day, Utusan also carried a photograph captioned “Mohd Saiful menunjukkan katil di bilik tidur utama tempat beliau mendakwa diliwat Anwar Ibrahim kepada Hakim Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah ketika melawat kondominium tempat kesalahan itu dilakukan...” (Mohd Saiful shows the judge the bed in the master bedroom where he was alleged to have been sodomised by Anwar.”

Karpal had applied to court to cite Utusan for contempt of court as he argued that what was published on Feb 4 was tantamount to contempt of court.

However, Zabidin had dismissed Karpal’s application on the grounds that “the said reports were not carried with the intention of being mischievious and to disrupt trial proceedings when clearly there was no evidence on affidavit or otherwise to show such intention or mischief by Utusan Malaysia.”

Similarly the judge had with regards to the Feb 5 coverage by Utusan declined to caution the newspaper despite the defence’s contention that the news report was misleading.

Zabidin’s basis of reasoning was that the publication of the picture as evidence regarding the bed had been given in open court the previous day, which Karpal argues did not actually occur.

“I respectfully state as a result of the rulings made by the learned trial judge, there has been a departure from the standard of even handed justice upon the applications made by my counsel with an independent mind.

“With respect, a fair-minded and informed bystander would, under the position obtaining, entertain a fear of real danger of bias on the part of the learned trial judge,” said Anwar in his application filed today.

He told reporters shortly after the trial adjourned for the day that the main reason for the application was that he wanted a fair trial.

“Political tricks and intentional damage to my character which is continually being done by Umno owned newspapers is being allowed.

“The statements published are blatantly inaccurate, yet the judge had not taken any action,” explained Anwar.

The former deputy prime minister has denied the accusations hurled by Saiful, describing it as “evil, frivolous lies by those in power” when the charge was read out to him. He is charged under section 377B of the Penal Code and can be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years’ jail and whipping upon conviction. The trial is taking place 18 months after Anwar was charged in court in August 2008.

Anwar was charged with sodomy and corruption in 1998 after he was sacked from the Cabinet and was later convicted and jailed for both offences. He was freed in September 2004 and later resurrected his political career by winning back his Permatang Pauh parliamentary seat in a by-election in 2008, which had been held in the interim by his wife.

He had earlier led the opposition coalition, Pakatan Rakyat, to a historic sweep of five states and 82 parliamentary seats in Election 2008.

The trial will proceed tomorrow morning at 9.30am where the court will hear the details of Anwar’s application.

Day 4 Trial - Defence out to knock Saiful’s testimony in Sodomy II

Lask week, Saiful told The Hight Court that his anus hole very sick after Anwar's 'old big weapon' penetrating it in June 26, 2008. Because of that, Saiful can't go to the toilet for 2 days. That's why he lodged the report in the evening in Jun 28 at HKL after the 3 doctor examine him. Why not Saiful told the court his blood also came out from his anus hole because Anwar's 'secret weapon' has a thorn. Just like Azizan Abu Bakar's statement during the Sodomy Trial 1. For the second time, we will see a young guy was lying to all nation of the accusation against Anwar. Today, Anwar's lawyer will 'drill' him in cross-examination proceeding.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 — It’s a make-or- break week for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s defence starting today when his lawyers, led by courtroom veteran Karpal Singh (picture), begin their cross-examination of the opposition leader’s accuser Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

The Parliamentary Opposition Leader, 62, is charged with sodomising his 24-year-old former aide at the upper-class Desa Damansara Condominium in Bukit Damansara on June 26, 2008. This is Anwar’s second sodomy trial since 1998, when he was sacked as deputy prime minister and later convicted and jailed for the offence.

Last week, the prosecution, led by Solicitor General II, Datuk Yusof Zainal Abiden, introduced Saiful as its first witness in open court but the defence managed to convince the court to continue a part of the testimony in-camera at the first sign of overly graphic details of the sex act.

Even so, lurid descriptions have leaked out detailing what the accuser and the accused allegedly wore – and took off – at the time and place of the supposed incident.

Saiful even shocked the court when he claimed that the PKR de facto leader had used profanity in propositioning him for sex.

Anwar has consistently maintained that the prosecution is acting on a trumped up charge and has repeatedly sought to get the court to drop the charge against him.

The Court of Appeal has fixed Feb 12 to hear Anwar’s case to strike out what he claims is an “evil and malicious” mistrial.

But the public can expect the defence to pounce on certain points of Saiful’s evidence, such as the fact that the former aide chose to see a doctor for help only two days after the supposed act, and claimed not to have passed motion for some 48 hours after being sodomised.

Lawyer Sankara Nair told The Malaysian Insider the defence team had huddled up over the weekend and were still busy “brainstorming”. He promised that the defence would leave no stone unturned to punch holes in Saiful’s evidence.

“We are looking at various angles,” said Sankara, adding that cross-examining Saiful will be a lengthy process that could last two days.

He declined to disclose the defence’s strategy but admitted they would try to show that Saiful is not a credible witness among several others.

“That would be included,” replied Sankara, who also acted for Anwar in his first sodomy trial.

By Debra Chong - themalaysianinsider

How, yet again, they are trying to fabricate evidence against Anwar

Raja Petra Kamarudin

It was a great party that night. The Chemistry Department was so pleased they had an airtight case against Anwar Ibrahim they decided to celebrate. And the RM25,000 party was financed by a Good Samaritan who was delighted that this time, unlike last time, they have got Anwar by the balls.

RM25,000 is not a lot to spend on a party if it is a party to celebrate the wedding of the Prime Minister. Last year, when Abdullah Ahmad Badawi got married to the Maid from Putrajaya, they spent millions. RM25,000 is also not a lot to spend on a celebration the day Najib Tun Razak finally takes over as Prime Minister in 2010. Rosmah Mansor spends more than that on a handbag. But RM25,000 is certainly a lot to spend on a party to celebrate the ‘success’ of the Chemistry Department in being able to nail Anwar’s balls to the wall.

Why does the Good Samaritan need to sponsor a RM25,000 party for the Chemistry Department staff? What is there to celebrate? Do they always celebrate with a RM25,000 party whenever they succeed in cracking a case? Or was this a once-in-a-lifetime celebration for successfully coming up with the ‘evidence’ to send Anwar to jail for at least ten years, which will ensure he will never be able to form the new federal government on 16 September 2008?

Hold on awhile though. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said that Anwar must volunteer his ‘new’ DNA profile. The 1998 DNA profile that the police have on record is ‘too old’, argued Abdullah. The police, in turn, said that if Anwar refuses to volunteer his ‘new’ DNA profile then they would have to obtain a court order to force him to do so. Hmm…..there appears to be many things wrong with all this.

Firstly, if the Chemistry Department has already wrapped up its case and the airtight ‘evidence’ against Anwar has already been secured then why the need for Anwar’s new DNA profile? DNA profiles never expire. Would the police also need Anwar’s ‘new’ fingerprints because the one they took ten years ago has ‘expired’? Fingerprints never change from the day you were born till the day you die. And the same goes for DNA profiles as well.

If you can remember, they once dug up Napoleon Bonaparte’s grave and did an examination to prove he had died of arsenic poisoning. And Napoleon died on 5 May 1821, which is more than 187 years ago. You mean to say that Anwar’s DNA profile of ten years ago is already basi?

The truth is, the airtight ‘evidence’ that the Chemistry Department recently conjured is based on Anwar’s specimen of 1998. So they need a new specimen dated 2008. If not, if Anwar calls in an independent foreign expert to audit the Chemistry Department’s evidence, he or she might just discover that the so-called ‘evidence’ is actually ten years old and not from the 26 June 2008 ‘sodomy’ incident as alleged by the government.

Yes, that’s right, they not only can tell whether the so-called ‘semen’ on Saiful’s underwear belongs to Anwar, they can also tell whether it is from September 1998 when they first took Anwar’s specimen, or whether it is dated 26 June 2008 as alleged by the government.

The ‘evidence’ is ready. The semen specimen on Saiful’s underwear has been 'confirmed' as Anwar's. The only problem is if they allow an independent foreign expert to do an audit on the Chemistry Department’s findings, he or she might confirm that the specimen is ten years old and not dated 26 June 2008 as alleged.

So they need to exchange the September 1998 specimen with a new one dated July 2008. And that is why Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Syed Hamid Albar, and all those others, have asked Anwar to volunteer his new specimen. They need this new specimen to ‘prove’ that the semen on Saiful’s underwear is dated 26 June 2008 and not September 1998. And Abdullah himself ‘confirmed’ this when he asked Anwar to volunteer his new specimen whereas the old specimen is good enough if it is just required for DNA profiling -- only that it would not pass the test if an independent foreign expert was to audit the Chemistry Department’s ‘evidence’ and then come out with a report that says the specimen is ten years old.

Yes, in September 1998 they already took Anwar’s specimen. But they can’t use it as evidence in this latest sodomy allegation. They need to ‘update’ the evidence and unless they can force Anwar to give them his new specimen then the evidence will be shot full of holes. And that is why the police had to reluctantly release Anwar on police bail one day after his dramatic Hollywood-style arrest. They had to either release him or bring him to court to be charged. But how to charge Anwar when the evidence is defective? And evidence of Anwar’s so-called sodomy crime supported by a specimen from September 1998 will certainly be defective and will not stand up in court. Anwar is alleged to have sodomised Saiful on 26 June 2008, not in September 1998.

Now can you see how the slime-ball AG and scumbag IGP work? And these two slithery creatures are the same slime-balls and scumbags who fabricated evidence in 1998 that resulted in Anwar having to spend six years in jail. And am I committing an act of sedition and criminal defamation in saying this? I certainly hope so. And, while we are at it, why not I commit yet another ‘crime’? I am going to accuse the AG and IGP of fabricating evidence and of intimidating witnesses.

You see, they asked a certain doctor from a certain hospital to conduct an examination on Saiful. The doctor did so and he came out with a report that said there is no evidence Anwar had ever penetrated or sodomised the young man. The police then picked up the doctor and detained him for three days. As much as they tried to force him to change his report to implicate Anwar he refused to do so.

Until today, the doctor stands by his report that there is no evidence Anwar had sodomised Saiful. He knows he is going to be made to pay for this but he doesn’t care. He is not going to change his report and say that Anwar sodomised Saiful whatever they do to him. Exasperated, the police had to release Anwar on personal bond or police bail. The doctor refuses to doctor his report and neither does Anwar want to volunteer his new specimen.

The ‘evidence’ against Anwar is no good. They now need to look for another way to ‘prove’ that Anwar sodomised Saiful. In the meantime, let us see if the AG will be making another police report against me and whether the IGP is going to arrest me and charge me in court for sedition and criminal defamation for this latest allegation of mine.

Hey, I already face four charges of sedition and criminal defamation. What are another two or three charges? The important thing is not whether I get sent to jail or not. What is important is that the world is told that they are attempting, yet again, to fabricate evidence against Anwar Ibrahim. And that is worth going to jail for.

THE ABOVE ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED ON 21 JULY 2008. SOON AFTER THAT I WAS SUMMONED TO BUKIT AMAN BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO 'TAKE MY STATEMENT' ON A CHARGE OF SEDITION. I REFUSED TO GIVE MY STATEMENT AND THE POLICE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO RELEASE ME. THEY THEN RAIDED MY HOUSE TO LOOK FOR THE DOCTOR'S REPORT AND CONFISCATED VARIOUS DOCUMENTS. THEY COULD NOT FIND MY COMPUTER THOUGH ALTHOUGH THEY SEARCHED THE ENTIRE HOUSE. LESS THAN TWO MONTHS LATER I WAS DETAINED UNDER THE INTERNAL SECURITY ACT.

-malaysia today.