China wants to arrest Li on charges of organizing demonstrations to disturb public order. The Communist party has accused him of trying to replace the government and blamed his group for the deaths of at least 743 people, mainly those who Beijing says shunned medical treatment in favour of meditation to treat serious illnesses. A man who accused jailed former finance minister Anwar Ibrahim of sodomizing him told a Malaysian court today he was instructed by a senior police officer to change the date he says he was sodomized. The testimony by Azizan, former driver of the Anwar family and the prosecution's star witness, is crucial to the whole trial. Anwar, once a step away from becoming prime minister, and his adopted brother Sukma Darmawan are jointly charged with sodomizing Azizan in 1993.
Sodomy is a crime in Malaysia.
Both Anwar and Sukma deny the charges. Anwar was initially charged with sodomizing Azizan in May 1994. In April, government prosecutors changed the date to May 1992. The defence told the court at the start of the trial that the prosecution was forced to amend the date of the alleged offence because the apartment where the sodomy was supposed to have taken place had not yet been built in May 1992. Defence lawyers have also argued that Azizan's sodomy allegations were concocted by Anwar's political enemies who wanted to prevent Anwar from becoming prime minister.