Hundreds of police officers with helmets and assault rifles surrounded Anwar's house. Anwar has conducted almost two weeks of protest rallies against Mahathir. Anwar's lawyer Christopher Fernando told reporters the former cabinet minister was being taken to federal police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur to be indicted for sexual indecency. Anwar allegedly committed sodomy Mahathir Anwar's adopted brother and a former speechwriter pleaded guilty in court Saturday to being sodomized by Anwar.
Sodomy is a crime in Malaysia.
Headlines in almost all of Malaysia's Sunday papers declared in boldface type the men's confessions. Anwar said the men were coerced and that Mahathir was behind a plot to diminish his popularity in this conservative Muslim country, where many readers considered the newspaper articles pornographic. Mahathir sacked Anwar as deputy prime minister and finance minister on September 2. Anwar has been under investigation for sodomy, treason, corruption and other crimes that he has denied, saying he was the victim of a conspiracy. Enough is enough.