His conviction on sodomy charges will effectively ban him from politics for five years, at a moment when the opposition is posing the most serious challenge to Malaysia’s ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) since the country gained its independence from the British Empire in 1958. Moreover, Anwar’s daughter has now been detained for questioning the integrity of her father’s trial in a speech in the Malay parliament, in which she is an elected member in her own right.
还有马来西亚多年来的反对派领袖、前副总理安瓦尔·易卜拉欣（Anwar Ibrahim）。他因鸡奸而被定罪，五年内无法从政，而这正逢1958年马来西亚从大英帝国独立以来反对派对执政党马来民族统一组织（United Malays National Organization，UMNO）构成最严重的挑战之时。此外，安瓦尔之女也因为在马来西亚议会发表演讲质疑父亲判决的合理性而被羁押。她凭借自己的努力当选为马来西亚议员。