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The Kuala Lumpur High Court on Monday acquitted Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim of charges that he sodomized a former male political aide. High Court Judge Mohamad...

The two-year sodomy trial of Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim came to a close Thursday with the prosecution delivering its closing arguments. Under Malaysian law, sodomy is punishable by...

A UN panel of independent human rights experts warned Wednesday that recently-passed legislation in Malaysia would severely curtail the right to peaceably assemble in that country. The Peaceful Assembly Act 2011 ,...

Malaysia's lower house of Parliament approved a new law on Tuesday that would ban street protests and impose tougher restrictions on demonstrators in the nation. The Peaceful Assembly Bill contains an outright ban on street...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law says that the death of Muammar Gaddafi and one of his sons exemplifies an emerging trend towards the use of targeted and extrajudicial killings instead of attempts to capture...

Defense counsel for Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim rested its case on Monday in Anwar's sodomy trial, for which a verdict is expected by the end of the year....

Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim testified for the first time Monday in his trial on charges of sodomy, denying the charges against him. Anwar testified that the charges against...

Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim failed a third time Monday to remove the judge in his sodomy case. The charges against Anwar allege that he sodomized a former male...

A Malaysian court ruled Monday that prosecutors have enough evidence to pursue a sodomy case against opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim . The Kuala Lumpur High Court ruling forces...

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Monday filed a complaint in a Malaysian court over a WikiLeaks cable published by Australian newspapers stating he had engaged in sodomy. The leaked US diplomatic cable...