COMMENT | On March 7, 2015, I organised a protest called “Rise with Justice”. As a third-year law student in the UK, I would never have imagined that Malaysia would dare to use the entire state apparatus to unjustly convict Anwar Ibrahim for a second time.

Many Malaysian students in the UK did not dare to turn up for the protest, but I pushed forward with it as a student leader of Malaysia Progressives United Kingdom because I want the world to know about the deep injustices of the state.

Reformasi leaders always talk about their political awakening in 1998; mine was in 2015.

When Anwar defied all odds and became prime minister in November 2022, I wrote an article titled “Anwar made me believe in something”, about how that moment meant so much to supporters like me.

I thought about the many followers who braved through...