Malaysia (High Court) finds Anwar Ibrahim not guilty of sodomy.
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been acquitted of sodomy after a two-year trial. The ruling came as hundreds of Mr Anwar's supporters waited outside the court in Kuala Lumpur.
Mr Anwar, 64, has consistently denied the charges and called them a government bid to cripple his political ambitions and influence.
He was jailed for sodomy in 1999 but the conviction was overturned. Sodomy is illegal in Muslim-majority Malaysia.
Mr Anwar had been accused of having sex with a former male aide. He had faced up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.
BBC News
January 9, 2012.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16463989
This is the third attempt to shut Ibrahim out of politics over 12 years.The first sodomy trial featured a farcical parade, day after day, of a bed, at the court, - the 'scene of the crime'; The third concerned a tube of lube.
In his limited years of freedom, Ibrahim and his wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail have united Malaysia's disparate opposition groups into a credible coalition which denied the ruling parties a 2/3 majority 2008.
