Most Malaysians believe Anwar is innocent: polls

By Jalil Hamid

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Opinion polls show most people believe Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim did not commit sodomy against an aide after he was jailed on a similar charge seen as politically motivated before it was overturned.

A small survey by the independent Merdeka Center research firm found just 6 percent of respondents believed the allegations, and nearly 60 percent viewed it as politically motivated.

“It’s going to be an uphill battle for the government because you are facing a more cynical public,” said the firm’s pollster, Ibrahim Suffian.The survey polled 225 ethnic Malays aged 20 and above.

A separate survey by the independent news website, Malaysiakini (www.malaysiakini.com), showed that 94.4 percent of its respondents believed the allegation was part of a political conspiracy against Anwar.

The political uncertainty dragged the stock market lower again, with the benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index down 1.7 percent at the midday break. The index has lost about 3 percent so far this week.

Ratings agency Fitch, which has a positive outlook for Malaysia’s foreign currency rating and a stable outlook for the local currency, said it was monitoring the impact of the political situation on economic policies.

“The concern that we have would be that the political situation begins to affect the policy outlook. There is not really much evidence of that just yet,” James McCormack, head of Asia sovereign ratings at Fitch, told Reuters.

“It appears to us there is a political transition of sorts under way in Malaysia. The question is how fast does that move and how significant is it. And I think some of those answers are still unclear,” he said.

SHOW OF SUPPORT

More than 7,000 people turned up at an impromptu rally late on Tuesday night in the biggest show of support for Anwar since the aide complained to police at the weekend about an alleged assault at a luxury Kuala Lumpur apartment last Thursday.

Police have yet to question Anwar, who has dismissed the allegation as a top-level political conspiracy to keep him from standing for parliament, and to stymie his campaign aimed at wooing defectors from the ruling National Front coalition.

Winning a seat in parliament would be the first step on the road to Anwar’s wider ambition of leading the opposition to power for the first time in Malaysian history.

The sodomy case emerged at a time when Abdullah’s UMNO party has been riven by dissent and the loose opposition alliance was making a bid to take power. The three-party alliance made historic gains in a March 8 general election, winning five of 13 state governments and coming within 30 seats of taking control of the 222-member parliament.

Anwar was jailed for six years on a charge of committing sodomy with an aide and a family driver after he broke with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad over the handling of the 1998 Asian financial crisis. The Federal Court overturned the conviction in 2004. Sodomy is a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison in mainly Muslim Malaysia.

Anwar has said he planned to file a legal deposition soon demonstrating that his accuser, Saiful Bukhari, had close ties with Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak and his staff.

At the rally, Anwar said he would not sit quietly and allow a repeat of what happened to him 10 years ago. The crowd, who had gathered at the indoor stadium in Shah Alam just outside the capital two hours before he turned up late at night, chanted “Reformasi,” the battle cry of his reform movement.

“We will fight. When we take over the country, the first thing we will do is to bring down the price of fuel,” Anwar said.

(Additional reporting by Faisal Aziz; Editing by Bill Tarrant and Ben Tan)

Reuters

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STOP PRESS! ANWAR IBRAHIM’s STATEMENT

LAPURAN POLIS DATO’ SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM
1hb Julai, 2008

Saya, Anwar bin Ibrahim, (No K/P: 470810-07-5095), sesungguhnya di sini membuat laporan polis berikut berdasarkan maklumat yang telah saya perolehi baru-baru ini.
1. Laporan ini adalah berkaitan dengan siasatan terdahap serangan fizikal yang dilakukan ke atas saya oleh bekas Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Rahim Noor (“Rahim Noor”) pada 20hb September 1998. Saya percaya Tan Sri Rahim Noor, selepas didakwa, telah mengaku bersalah atas tuduhan serangan fizikal tersebut. Saya telah membuat laporan polis berkenaan serangan fizikal tersebut pada 27.9.98.
2. Berkaitan dengan penyiasatan terhadap serangan fizikal tersebut, saya percaya bahawa Pegawai Penyiasat, ACP Mat Zain bin Ibrahim (sekarang Datuk Mat Zain) telah melakukan satu penyiasatan yang mendalam dan menyeluruh dan menyediakan satu kertas siasatan (“IP”) yang telah kemudiannya pada Oktober 1998, menyerahkannya kepada bekas Peguam Negara, Tan Sri Mokhtar Abdullah (“Tan Sri Mokhtar”) serta pasukannya yang antaranya termasuklah Peguam Negara sekarang Tan Sri Gani Patail untuk tindakan lanjut.
3. Kertas siasatan tersebut telah menyimpulkan bahawa Tan Sri Rahim Noor adalah pelaku serangan fizikal tersebut ke atas saya. Kertas tersebut telah membuat kesimpulan setelah siasatan menyeluruh dilakukan, dengan mengambilkira laporan perubatan daripada pakar forensik daripada Hospital Kuala Lumpur seperti Dr. Ab. Halim Haji Mansar dan Dr. Zahari bin Noor dan kenyataan dari sekurang-kurangnya 60 orang saksi. Laporan perubatan tersebut menyimpulkan bahawa kesan kecederaan yang dilakukan ke atas saya adalah konsisten dengan satu serangan fizikal.
4. Walaupun kandungan kertas siasatan dan lapuran perubatan yang tersedia, Tan Sri Mokhtar dengan bantuan Peguam Negara hari ini dan, Tan Sri Gani Patail telah mendapatkan khidmat seorang pegawai perubatan bernama Dr. Abdul Rahman bin Yusof (Dr. Abdul Rahman).
5. Dr. Abdul Rahman dalam satu laporan tidak bertarikh menyediakan laporan kedua yang menyentuh “lakonan semula tempat kejadian” pada 14 Disember 2008. Saya percaya bahawa “lakonan semula tempat kejadian” tersebut tidak pernah berlaku.

6. Adalah satu fakta yang tidak disangkalkan bahawa laporan perubatan Dr Abdul Rahman berhubung serangan yang dilakukan terhadap saya disediakan tanpa langsung melakukan pemeriksaan fizikal ke atas saya terlebih dahulu.

7. Walaupun sudah ada kertas siasatan dan laporan kesihatan yang lengkap, Tan Sri Mokhtar dalam kenyataan akhbarnya bertarikh 5 Januari 1999, menerima pandangan yang diberikan oleh Dr. Abdul Rahman mengenai apa yang dikatakan sebagai “perkara-perkara tidak konsisten” dalam laporan perubatan doktor-doktor lain yang telah menjalankan pemeriksaan fizikal ke atas saya.

8. Kenyataan akhbar Tan Sri Mokhtar juga menyatakan siasatan yang telah dijalankan tidak dapat mengenalpasti individu atau mereka yang menyebabkan kecederaan ke atas saya. Ini sesungguhnya bercanggah dengan laporan siasatan yang selesai dilakukan menjelang Oktober 1998 yang menyimpulkan bahawa Rahim Noor menyerang saya. Tan Sri Mokhtar dan pasukannya dengan itu telah secara sengaja mengelirukan masyarakat. Apabila siasatan polis menjadi tidak lengkap, orang ramai menjadi resah dan menuntut ditubuhkan satu Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja. Tan Sri Mokhtar juga telah membuat kenyataan palsu bahawa kertas siasatan telah diserahkan kepada beliau hanya pada 19.11.98. Saya percaya Tan Sri Gani Patail ada makluman penuh tentang kenyataan palsu yang terkandung dalam kenyataan akhbar tersebut.

9. Saya juga percaya Tan Sri Musa Hassan dan Tan Sri Gani Patail telah hadir di Bukit Aman pada 20 September 1998 dan mengetahui mengenai serangan Tan Sri Rahim Noor terhadap saya. Tan Sri Musa dan Tan Sri Gani selanjutnya menyembunyikan fakta mengenai serangan terhadap saya dari pengetahuan umum sehinggalah mata saya yang lebam dan kecederaan yang saya alami didedahkan di mahkamah.

10. Saya percaya kedua-dua Tan Sri Musa dan Tan Sri Gani Patail secara aktif terlibat dalam menyediakan lapuran kedua tidak bertarikh oleh Dr. Abdul Rahman yang telah membuat kesimpulan palsu dan pelik seperti “the pattern and nature of the injuries are not consistent with a direct blow” [“bentuk dan ciri kecederaan adalah tidak konsisten dengan pukulan secara langsung”], “accidental nature of the injuries could not be ruled out” [“kemungkinan kecederaan ini disebabkan oleh kemalangan tidak boleh ditolak”] dan “self-inflicted nature of the injury should be considered” [kemungkinan kecederaan disebabkan perbuatan sendiri harus diberikan pertimbangan”]. Mereka mengarahkan Dr. Abdul Rahman untuk menyediakan lapuran kedua ini dan bertindak di bawah pengarahan dan/atau bersama Tan Sri Mokhtar Abdullah.

11. Semua fakta-fakta ini menunjukkan Tan Sri Musa Hassan, Tan Sri Gani Patail dan SAC II Datuk Mat Zain bin Ibrahim (individu, yang menurut Dr. Abdul Rahman dalam lapurannya, telah mengiringi beliau ke sel di Bukit Aman di mana saya ditahan dan terlibat dalam apa yang didakwa ‘lakonan semula tempat kejadian’) telah berpakat dengan Dr. Abdul Rahman untuk menyediakan lapuran kedua ini. Ini telah dilakukan agar lapuran polis saya bertarikh 27.9.98 mengenai serangan tersebut akan dikira sebagai lapuran polis palsu dan saya boleh didakwa, atau sekurang-kurangnya merosakkan kredibiliti saya bagi memberi kesan buruk terhadap pembelaan saya dalam kes-kes jenayah yang mana saya telah didakwa melakukan ‘korupsi’ dan liwat bagi membolehkan saya didapati bersalah.

12. Saya ingin menyatakan bahawa Tan Sri Gani Patail adalah pegawai pendakwa kanan yang membantu Tan Sri Mokhtar dalam membuat pendakwaan ke atas saya. Tan Sri Musa Hassan adalah Pegawai Penyiasat dalam pendakwaan terhadap saya. Saya juga percaya, satu tindakan yang tidak pernah dibuat sebelum ini telah diambil apabila satu bilik operasi khusus telah disediakan di Bukit Aman untuk menguruskan pendakwaan saya dan di mana mereka akan berjumpa secara kerap.

13. Ini bukanlah kali pertama dakwaan mengenai pemalsuan bukti dibuat berkaitan Tan Sri Gani Patail. Saya dimaklumkan bahawa dalam keputusan Mahkamah Persekutuan Zainur bin Zakaria v Public Prosecutor [2001] 3 MLJ, Steve Shim, Hakim Besar, dalam penghakiman beliau menyatakan bahawa “… was he not justified, on a prima facie basis, in complaining that Tan Sri Gani Patail’s conduct at the meeting on 2.10.1998 was an attempt to get Nalla to fabricate evidence in order to perfect charges against him for other alleged sexual offences?”

Perkataan “he” dan “him” dalam ayat di atas merujuk kepada diri saya.

14. Berkenaan perkara di atas, saya merujuk kepada dokumen berkenaan bagi membantu siasatan polis:

a. Kenyataan akhbar Tan Sri Mokhtar yang dibuat pada 5.1.99.
b. Nota prosiding dalam lapuran Suruhanjaya DiRaja berkaitan keterangan Dr Abdul Rahman
c. Laporan Kesihatan kedua yang dibuat oleh Dr. Abdul Rahman yang terkandung dalam lapuran Suruhanjaya.

15. Saya memohon diadakan satu siasatan baru terhadap pemalsuan bukti yang mana saya telah dinasihati sebagai satu kesalahan di bawah seksyen 192 Kanun Keseksaan yang boleh membawa hukuman penjara 7 tahun. Saya memohon agar setiap individu yang terlibat dalam menyediakan laporan kedua oleh Dr Abdul Rahman ini iaitu Tan Sri Gani Patail, Tan Sri Musa Hassan, Dr. Rahman dan Datuk Mat Zain bin Ibrahim disiasat secara terperinci agar kebenaran diperolehi dan sebarang salah laku dihukum.

ANWAR BIN IBRAHIM
1 Julai 2008

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POLICE REPORT LODGED BY DATO’ SERI ANWAR IBRAHIM
1ST July, 2008

I, Anwar bin Ibrahim, (NRIC No: 470810-07-5095), hereby make the following police report based on information that I have recently received.
1. This report is in relation to the investigation into the assault on me by the former IGP Tan Sri Rahim Noor on 20 September 1998. I believe Tan Sri Rahim Noor, after being prosecuted, pleaded guilty to the assault. I had lodged a police report in respect of the assault on 27.9.98.
2. In relation to the investigation into the assault, I believe that the Investigating Officer ACP Mat Zain bin Ibrahim (now Datuk Mat Zain) had conducted a thorough investigation and prepared an investigation paper (“IP”) which was presented by October 1998 to the former Attorney General, Tan Sri Mokhtar Abdullah and his team which included the current Attorney General Tan Sri Gani Patail for further action.
3. The said investigation paper concluded that Tan Sri Rahim Noor was the perpetrator of the assault on me. The said paper reached a conclusion after a thorough investigation which included medical reports by Hospital KL forensic specialists such as Dr. Ab. Halim Haji Mansar and Dr.Zahari bin Noor and statement from at least 60 witnesses. The medical reports concluded that the injury inflicted on me was consistent with an assault.
4. Despite the contents of the Investigation paper and the medical reports already available, Tan Sri Mokhtar with the assistance of the current Attorney General, Tan Sri Gani Patail then obtained the services of another doctor whom I was informed to be one Dr. Abdul Rahman Yusof.
5. Doctor Rahman in an undated and second report speaks of a “reconstruction of the scene” on 14 December 2008. I believe that this so-called reconstruction of the scene never happened.

6. It is an undisputable fact that Dr. Rahman’s reports in relation to the assault on me were done without actually even examining me at any time.

7. However, despite the IP and the already existing medical reports, Tan Sri Mokhtar in his press statement of 5 January 1999 appears to accept the views of Dr. Rahman on the so-called “inconsistencies” in the other medical reports by the doctors who actually physically examined me.

8. Tan Sri Mokhtar’s press statement also states that the investigation which had been carried out did not identify the person or persons responsible for my injuries. This is inconsistent with the IP which had already concluded by October 1998 that it was Rahim Noor who assaulted me. Tan Sri Mokhtar and his team therefore had willfully misled the public. As the police investigation done by Mat Zain had apparently not led to any conclusion, there was a public outcry and demand for a Royal Commission which was then set up. Tan Sri Mokhtar also made a false statement that the IP was submitted to him on 19.11.98. I believe that Tan Sri Gani Patail had full knowledge of the false contents of this press statement.

9. I believe Tan Sri Musa Hassan and Tan Sri Gani Patail were present in Bukit Aman on 20 September 1998 and knew about the assault by Tan Sri Rahim Noor on me. Tan Sri Musa and Tan Sri Gani further concealed the fact of the assault on me from the public until my black eye and injuries were revealed in court.

10. I believe both Tan Sri Musa and Tan Sri Gani Patail were actively involved in the procuring of the second undated report by Dr. Rahman which makes false and incredible conclusions such as “the pattern and nature of the injuries are not consistent with a direct blow”, “accidental nature of the injuries could not be ruled out” and “self-inflicted nature of the injury should be considered”. They gave the instructions to Dr. Rahman to proceed to write this second report and were acting under the direction and/or jointly with Tan Sri Mokhtar Abdullah.

11. These facts show that Tan Sri Musa Hassan, Tan Sri Gani Patail and SAC II Datuk Mat Zain bin Ibrahim (who, according to Dr. Rahman’s second report, accompanied him to the cell in Bukit Aman where I was detained and participated in the so-called reconstruction of the scene) conspired with Dr. Rahman to procure the production of this second report. This was done so that my police report of 27.9.98 in respect of the assault would be regarded as a false police report for which I could be charged, or at the very least, to damage my credibility, so as to affect my defence in the other criminal cases where I was charged for so-called “corruption” and sodomy to facilitate a conviction.

12. I wish to point out that Tan Sri Gani Patail was the senior prosecutor assisting Tan Sri Mokhtar in the prosecution against me. Tan Sri Musa Hassan was the Investigating Officer for my prosecution. I also believe, that in an unprecedented manner, an operation room specially for my prosecution was set up at Bukit Aman’s compound where all these individuals would meet regularly.

13. This is not the first time that allegations of fabricating evidence had surfaced in connection with Tan Sri Gani Patail. I am informed that in the Federal Court decision Zainur bin Zakaria v Public Prosecutor [2001] 3 MLJ, Steve Shim CJ in delivering his judgment pointed out that “… was he not justified, on a prima facie basis, in complaining that Tan Sri Gani Patail’s conduct at the meeting on 2.10.1998 was an attempt to get Nalla to fabricate evidence in order to perfect charges against him for other alleged sexual offences?” The references to “he” and “him” in that sentence are references to myself.

14. In relation to the above, I refer to the following documents which will be of assistance to the police:

a. The press statement by Tan Sri Mokhtar issued on 5.1.99.
b. The notes of proceedings in the report of the Royal Commission of the evidence of Dr. Rahman
c. The second undated report produced by Dr. Rahman exhibited in the Royal Commission report.

15. I call for a fresh investigation into the fabrication of evidence in this case which I am advised is an offence contrary to section 192 of the Penal Code punishable up to 7 years imprisonment. I ask that all the persons who are implicated in the procuring of this second report by Dr. Rahman i.e. Tan Sri Gani Patail, Tan Sri Musa Hassan, Dr. Rahman and Datuk Mat Zain bin Ibrahim be investigated thoroughly so that the truth is known and the offending individuals punished.
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ANWAR BIN IBRAHIM
1st July 2008

Makluman : yb fuziah

Penama yang memberi komen sebagai “yb fuziah” BUKAN YB Pn Hjh Fuziah Salleh yang sebenarnya.
“yb fuziah” dikehendaki untuk tidak mengulangi perkara yang sama dan yang sekufu dengannya.

Di sini, perbincangan dan perbezaan pendapat amatlah dialu-alukan. Kebebasan untuk memaparkan pendapat dalam blog ini wajarlah disertai etika komunikasi yang tidak mengandungi unsur-unsur yang sengaja mewujudkan kekeliruan seperti yang dicetuskan oleh “yb fuziah”.

Rozaini M R
Parliamentary Assistant to
MP for Kuantan, Pn Hjh Fuziah Salleh

Anwar to kick off nationwide tour on Sunday

Chan Kok Leong | Jul 2, 08 3:24pm

Anwar Ibrahim has vowed to go on a nationwide tour to clear his name as he battled fresh sodomy allegations involving the opposition leader who sees himself as the ‘prime minister in waiting’. MCPX His first stop will be this Sunday in Petaling Jaya when thousands supporters are expected to voice their support for Anwar and to protest against the sharp hike in petrol prices last month. It seemed as if history was repeating itself. As a warm up to the main event this weekend, thousands of supporters gathered last night to hear the fiery orator talk about the alleged injustice meted out against him. In 1998, Anwar Ibrahim took to the streets to clear his name after he was unceremoniously sacked as deputy premier and accused of sodomy and abuse of power. A decade later, the PKR de facto leader is once again forced to do the same in the wake of new sodomy allegations. Like in the past, Anwar maintains that it is a conspiracy to end his political career. Last night, 10,000 people thronged Stadium Malawati in Shah Alam to hear the charismatic politician speak. Among those present were an army of Hindu Rights Action Force supporters who came armed with banners and placards demanding the release of their leaders. As usual, Anwar did not disappoint. He held the audience spellbound with his blistering 50-minute speech and raised the temperature a few notches when he vowed to “fight till the end the disgusting allegations against him.” His colleagues referred to him as the ‘supreme leader’ and prior to his arrival, other PKR leaders such as Saifuddin Nasution, R Sivarasa and Azmin Ali had warmed the floor with their “Najib (Abdul Razak) Mongolia” as well as Abdul Gani Patail and Musa Hassan jokes. In between their speeches, pictures of the trio and the former PKR worker Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, who made the new allegations against Anwar, flashed on the big screen. To move the crowd, each time their names were mentioned, their pictures were televised to everyone, drawing jeers. By the time Anwar arrived at 10pm, the audience were already riled up. And before the 60-year-old politician took the microphone, the national anthem and party song were played. Remembering 98 Peppering his message with doses of how he had suffered during the 1998 arrest, which culminated in a six-year prison term, a black eye and host of bodily injuries, Anwar had the crowd in overdrive. “But this is not about Anwar,” he reminded them. “This is about the failure of the administration of the country. Whether it’s the judiciary, the economy or the police – Pakatan Rakyat is here to ensure change,” he roared. Malaysia, he explained, is a oil producing nation and yet the petrol prices are one of the highest. He also repeated Pakatan’s election promise to bring petrol prices down if they were in government. “And I’ll be damned if I or the other Pakatan leaders were to allow this travesty of justice to repeat itself.” On the night Anwar was arrested on Sept 20, 1999, he was brought to the national police headquarters in Bukit Aman where the former deputy premier was beaten by then police chief Abdul Rahim Noor, resulting in a black eye and injuries to other parts of his body. What followed after his arrest was a series of unnatural sex and corruption trials. Besides a very prominent mattress, there was his former speech writer Dr Munawar Anees and adopted brother Sukma Darmawan Sasmita Atmadja who initially pleaded guilty of homosexual acts with him but subsequently recanted their statements, saying they were coerced by the police. His wife’s driver Azizan Abu Bakar was also alleged to have engaged in homosexual acts with Anwar. Amid doubts over the forensic evidence used to convict him of corruption and sodomy, Anwar was sentenced to six and nine years in prison respectively. The sentences were to run concurrently. However, in 2004 a panel of three judges in Federal Court overturned his sodomy conviction by 2 to 1, citing contradictions in the prosecution’s case. Different standards In his speech last night, Anwar also touched on the statutory declaration by blogger Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin implicating Najib’s wife Rosmah Mansor in the murder of a Mongolian national. The PKR leader said he was shocked when heard about the statutory declaration but was even more stunned when the allegations were quickly brushed aside. “When Raja Petra made a statutory declaration, alleging that Najib’s wife Rosmah was present during the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu the attorney-general called it frivolous. “But when the case is against Anwar Ibrahim, the authorities are moving with lightning speed, moving their forensic teams in and out of the Damansara condominium,” he said. The timing of the allegations, he claimed, was to derail Pakatan’s plans for him to re-enter parliament via a by-election and their announcement of the four BN parliamentarians who will be joining them. “They are getting more and more worried with each passing day as we inch closer to Putrajaya and this is nothing but a cheap attempt to stop us,” he said. Anwar also revealed that he will be going on a nationwide roadshow to explain himself to the people. Before departing, he reminded the crowd of the “One Million” protest at Padang Timur, Petaling Jaya on Sunday. “On Sunday, DAP’s Lim Kit Siang, PAS’ Abdul Hadi Awang and all our PKR leaders will be there to protest this injustice. We hope that you will take this message to your friends and family and ask them to turn out in full force. “We will send a message to the government this Sunday that such tricks will no longer be tolerated by the people anymore. “And don’t forget to pray to Allah to save our people and country,” he said to loud cheers.