Anwar Seeks Privacy Provision in Malaysia Gay Laws
International Herald Tribune, November 11, 2004
From the Agence France-Presse
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s laws on homosexuality need to be
amended, says the former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, whose conviction
and nine-year jail sentence for sodomy were recently overturned on appeal.
Anwar, who spent six years in prison on a separate charge of
abusing his position to cover up homosexual offenses, spoke out on what he
called a “sensitive” issue in an interview.
Anwar, a popular politician who was widely expected to be
Malaysia’s prime minister by now, maintained, as he has done since his arrest
in 1998, that the charges against him were trumped up to destroy his political
career.
But while insisting on his innocence and acknowledging that
most people in mainly Muslim Malaysia objected to homosexuality, he said
people’s privacy needed to be protected. .. "CLICK HERE" for more info
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