Word: mohamad
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...Malaysian government in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Authorities beat him and imprisoned him on trumped-up sodomy and corruption charges, according to Amnesty International documents. The charges were widely seen as the result of a political battle with then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Ibrahim successfully appealed the sodomy charges and was released in 2004 after six years in prison. Last night, Ibrahim said he believes that the aim of Islamic sharia law has a distinctly “Jeffersonian” focus on freedoms of expression and property. But Ibrahim was frustrated by the state...
...Such concerns come at a critical time for Abdullah, who became Prime Minister two years ago, taking over when his long-serving predecessor Mahathir Mohamad retired. The two men could not be more different. The soft-spoken, affable Abdullah is noted for his non-confrontational, consensus-seeking style, while Mahathir was more blunt and autocratic. When general elections were held a year ago, Abdullah campaigned on a platform of change, promising to root out corruption and to introduce greater transparency in government; he and his political party, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), won a landslide victory. Abdullah quickly...
...might as well have a foreigner for a Prime Minister. Why not, if he has brains?" MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, former Malaysian Prime Minister, criticizing his successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi for sacking the head of Malaysian national carmaker Proton and considering hiring a foreigner as a replacement...
...Even before the tsunami, when the only news from Aceh came from refugees (the military had sealed off the province while it attempted?vainly?to crush the rebels), the longing for peace was obvious. In May 2004, I was told by Mohamad, one of a dozen Acehnese illegal immigrants sharing a small room in Penang, that it didn't really matter who did the killing and torturing. "My friend Saiful was confused with someone else with the same name. Someone took him off a bus and tortured him in the jungle. When we found him, he was so covered...
...SUSPENDED. MOHAMAD ISA ABDUL SAMAD, 55, Federal Territories Minister of Malaysia and one of the country's three party vice presidents; from membership in the ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) party; in Kuala Lumpur. Isa was suspended for six years after an internal party investigation found that he bought votes during UMNO elections last year. The most senior casualty so far in Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's anti-corruption campaign, Isa has 14 days to appeal the suspension. If it is upheld, he will be forced to resign from his ministership...