By Adib Zalkapli - The Malaysian Insider
PETALING JAYA, Feb 3 — PKR will hold nightly briefings for its supporters at the party headquarters here, to counter the salacious details emerging from Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy trial.
Anwar’s lawyers and senior party leaders will be among those invited to give the briefings.
The briefing is organised by the party’s information secretariat chaired by PKR Youth vice chief Amirudin Shari.
“We want to show the public that mobilising crowds in court is just a small part of our work. We will hold nightly briefings for our supporters to get the correct information on the case,” said PKR Youth chief Shamsul Iskandar Akin who was the first speaker at the briefing tonight.
The secretariat will also print thousands of copies of a medical report that claimed Anwar’s accuser Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan was never sodomised, to be distributed to the public.
“Looking at the media reports today, it was clear their intention was only to tarnish Datuk Seri Anwar’s image,” Shamsul added.
Shamsul also claimed that Saiful’s testimony in court today showed that the former Anwar aide had not been sincere.
“Saiful is said to have met Najib to discuss a scholarship, but today in court he admitted that he is a university drop out,” said Shamsul referring to the prime minister’s statement in 2008 that he met Saiful to talk about a scholarship application.
Earlier today, Saiful who took the stand at the High Court as the prosecution’s first witness, testified that when he first met Anwar at a condominium in Damansara Heights in 2008, the PKR de facto leader had asked him: “Can I **** you today?”
Apart from the briefing, party officials are also using social networking website Facebook and micro-blogging service Twitter to defend Anwar’s image, calling the sodomy allegation “Conspiracy II.”
Prior to the trial Anwar appeared to have successfully won in the court of public opinion with wide and favourable coverage from the international media.
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