Speaking at the Oslo Freedom Forum, an NGO devoted to freeing humankind from arbitrary fetters imposed on life, Anwar related his experiences under ISA to the forum on human rights that featured famous prisoners of conscience.
On his second experience of ISA detention segued into a six-year span of confinement for sodomy and corruption, the texts that helped sustain him were Ibn Tufail's 'Hayy ibn Yaqdhan', Shakespeare's tragedies, and Solzhenitsyn's parables of Stalinist grotesqueries.
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