Writer and academic freed

Malaysia
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PEN International

25 January 1999

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(WiPC/IFEX) – WiPC has received confirmation that writer and academic Munawar Ahmad Anees was released on 18 January 1999, after serving four months of his six-month sentence. Anees was sentenced to six months in prison on 19 September 1998 for alleged homosexual relations with the former deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim. It is […]

(WiPC/IFEX) – WiPC has received confirmation that writer and academic
Munawar Ahmad Anees was released on 18 January 1999, after serving four
months of his six-month sentence.

Anees was sentenced to six months in prison on 19 September 1998 for alleged
homosexual relations with the former deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar
Ibrahim. It is widely believed that the charges against Anees were
politically motivated.

Thank you to all who sent appeals on this case.

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