Raja Petra Kamarudin

COMMENT | ‘As I said many times, not only is it in politics, everything is about perception.’

Anwar Ibrahim has been suffering from a serious spinal injury since 2000. As much as they try, local doctors are not able to cure his affliction. Physiotherapy and medication cannot solve the problem. Only surgery can.

Lead defence counsel Christopher Fernando spells out seven reasons why jailed former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim should have been acquitted from the sodomy charge.

The Federal Court was told that Anwar Ibrahim was asked to prove the impossible in the third day of the jailed ex-deputy prime minister's appeal hearing, which is his final bid for freedom.

The long-awaited Anwar Ibrahim appeal hearing against his sodomy conviction and nine-year jail sentence kicked off on Monday at the Federal Court in Putrajaya, Malaysia's swanking new administrative centre.

On Sept 10, former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim's solicitor, Sankara N Nair, dispatched a letter (below) to Information Minister Khalil Yaakob, lambasting him on the libellous and slanderous feature that government-owned TV station RTM recently ran on Anwar.