Word: anwar
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...general public perception of the police has been very severely dented," says Sulaiman Abdullah, a prominent lawyer. The current controversies are particularly troubling for many Malaysians, Sulaiman adds, in the wake of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's imprisonment and conviction on charges of corruption and sodomy. After Anwar was severely beaten on the night of his arrest in September 1998, an internal police inquiry failed to identify the culprit. It took a Royal Commission of Inquiry to determine that then-police chief Rahim Noor had administered the beating. (In a subsequent trial, Rahim was found guilty...
...West Sumatrans hope their success could lead to the resurrection of traditional systems that once existed in Aceh, the Maluku Islands, Bali and other places. "The key is not orders," says Anwar Zainal Abidin, a respected elder and former government official. "Things get done because of a collective spirit...
Aaron and BreZe, however, are only the headliners of pre-teen pop; a great many other agent-dependent, pre-pubescent boys and girls are being recruited and transformed into pop stars by record companies around the world. In Bangkok, 12-year-old half-Scottish, half-Indonesian Anan Anwar is shooting to the top of the charts with hits "Go To School" and "Simon Says." Triple Shake and Best Frenz are two more pop creations whose members are too young to see PG-13 movies but old enough to suggestively sway their underdeveloped hips...
...security services detained an American of Arab origin for forty days in 1998. After his release, he claimed both that he was tortured and that the United States Consulate General in Jerusalem, charged with the protection of American citizens in other countries, did nothing to prevent it. The American, Anwar Mohammed of Orlando, Fla., accuses American consular officials of ignoring the physical evidence of his mistreatment and of not attending the Israeli military court that authorized the security services to hold him for further questioning...
CONVICTED. ANWAR IBRAHIM, 53, Malaysia's deposed Deputy Prime Minister, arrested after challenging his mentor, Mahathir Mohamad, who has ruled for 19 years; of sodomy; and sentenced to nine years in prison; in Kuala Lumpur. Human-rights groups condemned the 14-month trial, in which prosecutors changed the date of the alleged crime twice after alibis were produced...