We have full confidence he will be acquitted says Anwar's daughter, Nurul Izzah.
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PUTRAJAYA: With the decision of the Sodomy II case expected this morning, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has called on Pakatan Rakyat (PR) to push through the next generation of leaders.
Speaking to over 1,000 supporters in Petaling Jaya last night, Anwar explained that the present leaders who have led PR to date are weighed down by old wounds and “issues that are old and outdated.”
“It is important that we give way to the young leaders in PR, because they are more forward looking,” he was quoted by the Malay Mail Online as saying.
He was referring to recent friction within the Pakatan Rakyat on issues such as the implementation of Hudud law and the need for local council elections.
Also in attendance at the final stop of Anwar’s “Rakyat Hakim Negara” tour were PAS’s Mohamad Sabu, Parti Keadilan Rakyat’s Azmin Ali and Rafizi Ramli.
Speaking at a dinner function earlier yesterday, DAP’s elder statesman Lim Kit Siang agreed that the nation should begin its transition to enable younger leaders to assume leadership positions in “all spheres of national life.”
In another interview, Anwar’s eldest daughter, Nurul Izzah Anwar, yesterday gave reporters a glimpse of the hardship which his family had gone through during his ordeal over the last sixteen years.
Just eighteen years old herself at the time he was first arrested, the current Lembah Pantai MP described the experience as something “no child would ever wish for.”
“Before, we witnessed the individual who protected us hauled to prison. Now, our father, whom we should be protecting may be victimized again. No child would ever want to go through that,” she is quoted by the Malaysian Insider as saying.
She said the pain “would never heal” but that her father’s message to her was to “keep going” – to “not surrender” – to continue to seek change, and to bring “reformasi” (reform) to Malaysia.
She said that despite clouds of grief, the time her family had spent with her father was “full of happiness and warmth” thanks to her father’s “humour, charisma, courage and playful teasing”.
She expressed full confidence that her father would be acquitted, saying that the family’s hopes were high, thanks to the lucid arguments presented during the appeal by Anwar’s legal team of Datuk Gopal Sri Ram, Ramkarpal Singh, Gobind Singh and Sangeet Kaur.
FMT
PUTRAJAYA: With the decision of the Sodomy II case expected this morning, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has called on Pakatan Rakyat (PR) to push through the next generation of leaders.
Speaking to over 1,000 supporters in Petaling Jaya last night, Anwar explained that the present leaders who have led PR to date are weighed down by old wounds and “issues that are old and outdated.”
“It is important that we give way to the young leaders in PR, because they are more forward looking,” he was quoted by the Malay Mail Online as saying.
He was referring to recent friction within the Pakatan Rakyat on issues such as the implementation of Hudud law and the need for local council elections.
Also in attendance at the final stop of Anwar’s “Rakyat Hakim Negara” tour were PAS’s Mohamad Sabu, Parti Keadilan Rakyat’s Azmin Ali and Rafizi Ramli.
Speaking at a dinner function earlier yesterday, DAP’s elder statesman Lim Kit Siang agreed that the nation should begin its transition to enable younger leaders to assume leadership positions in “all spheres of national life.”
In another interview, Anwar’s eldest daughter, Nurul Izzah Anwar, yesterday gave reporters a glimpse of the hardship which his family had gone through during his ordeal over the last sixteen years.
Just eighteen years old herself at the time he was first arrested, the current Lembah Pantai MP described the experience as something “no child would ever wish for.”
“Before, we witnessed the individual who protected us hauled to prison. Now, our father, whom we should be protecting may be victimized again. No child would ever want to go through that,” she is quoted by the Malaysian Insider as saying.
She said the pain “would never heal” but that her father’s message to her was to “keep going” – to “not surrender” – to continue to seek change, and to bring “reformasi” (reform) to Malaysia.
She said that despite clouds of grief, the time her family had spent with her father was “full of happiness and warmth” thanks to her father’s “humour, charisma, courage and playful teasing”.
She expressed full confidence that her father would be acquitted, saying that the family’s hopes were high, thanks to the lucid arguments presented during the appeal by Anwar’s legal team of Datuk Gopal Sri Ram, Ramkarpal Singh, Gobind Singh and Sangeet Kaur.
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