Mahathir: Accept verdict on Anwar 
MalaysiaKini.com
Feb 9,  2015 
By Zulaikha Zulkifli 

Tomorrow, the Federal Court will deliver its verdict on whether Anwar Ibrahim will be incarcerated or remain a free man.

Commenting on this, the opposition leader's arch nemesis Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the people should accept whatever outcome.

"The people must accept (the decision). This nation has laws. If the court finds him innocent, we accept.

"Don't let there be people who will later say that when a big shot does something wrong, nothing happens," he told reporters.

Mahathir had sacked Anwar as deputy premier in 1998 on moral grounds, paving the way for his first sodomy charge and imprisonment.

Anwar had then accused Mahathir and his associates of fabricating the charge, but the latter denied this.

Similarly, Anwar has claimed that the second sodomy charge is also a political conspiracy.

In 2008, Anwar was again faced with allegations of sexual misconduct, this time by a young aide by the name of Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

Yet again, there was tangled web of politics involved as Saiful had approached then deputy premier Najib Abdul Razak before filing a police report against Anwar.

Anwar faces fail of up to five years if his appeal tomorrow is unsuccessful.

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