The way the Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trial is being conducted has received outright condemnation from an international legislators body - the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) that has been keeping a close eye on the case unanimously adopted a resolution that the prosecution in the case had been compromised and was choc-a-bloc with defects.
The resolution, adopted by the Geneva-based IPU on Oct 6, noted procedural irregularities, based on a 24 -page report report by Queens Counsel Mark Trowell, an observer at the trial, that was handed over to the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians, compromising the prosecution's case.
The resolution states:
The resolution, adopted by the Geneva-based IPU on Oct 6, noted procedural irregularities, based on a 24 -page report report by Queens Counsel Mark Trowell, an observer at the trial, that was handed over to the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians, compromising the prosecution's case.
The resolution states:
"Trowell provides a detailed analysis of this question and arrives at the conclusion that 'since the prosecution case has been completely compromised, the public interest would justify discontinuing the proceedings. It noted that the Malaysian delegation's view that this did not take into account the interest of the victim in receiving justice."
The Malaysian delegation was represented by Deputy Education Minister Wee Ka Siong and Nancy Shukri (MP for Batang Sadong). Questions had been raised over Wee's presence at the IPU in the Malaysian delegation. Reason being, according to Anwar's lawyer Sankara Nair, the Permatang Pauh MP has a suit pending against the deputy education minister.
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