{"id":31840,"date":"2012-01-09T15:11:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31840"},"modified":"2017-01-09T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T16:10:06","slug":"malaysia-opposition-leader-anwar-ibrahim-acquitted-of-sodomy-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31840","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim acquitted of sodomy charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index: Malaysia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/malaysia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Malaysian<\/a> opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been <a title=\"BBC: Anwar Ibrahim acquitted of sodomy in Malaysia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-16463989\" target=\"_blank\">acquitted<\/a> of charges of sodomy after a two-year court battle. A judge <a title=\"Telegraph: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim cleared of sodomy charges\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/malaysia\/9002251\/Malaysian-opposition-leader-Anwar-Ibrahim-cleared-of-sodomy-charges.html\" target=\"_blank\">ruled<\/a> today that DNA evidence used by prosecution was unreliable. Anwar was first prosecuted after a former male aide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernama.com\/bernama\/v6\/newsindex.php?id=638846\" target=\"_blank\">accused<\/a> the politician of sodomising him in 2008. Anwar has long <a title=\"Guardian: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim cleared of sodomy charges\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jan\/09\/malaysian-opposition-anwar-ibrahim-timeline?newsfeed=true\" target=\"_blank\">denied<\/a> the charges, calling them\u00a0&#8220;a vile and desperate attempt at character assassination&#8221; in a statement to the High Court in August of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been acquitted of charges of sodomy after a two-year court battle. A judge ruled today that DNA evidence used by prosecution was unreliable. Anwar was first prosecuted after a former male aide accused the politician of sodomising him in 2008. Anwar has long denied the charges, calling them\u00a0&#8220;a vile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4061,584,585,581],"tags":[4169,7372,4170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31840"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31865,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31840\/revisions\/31865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}