Anwar leaves jail for family funeral

Anwar leaves jail for family funeral

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysia's sacked deputy premier Anwar
Ibrahim was allowed on Sunday to leave jail for his brother's
funeral.

An opposition spokesman said the family was told only about 30
minutes beforehand that Anwar would be allowed to attend and the
burial was delayed till he arrived under the guard of police and
prison warders.

The Alternative Front, whose candidate for premier in the Nov.
29 polls is Anwar, has slammed the government over the case,
saying they refused appeals to let him see his brother Mohamad
Rani Ibrahim before he died of lung cancer on Saturday. He was
62.

Anwar met his mother and wife Azizah Ismail at the Islamic
ceremony in a Kuala Lumpur suburb and shook hands with mourners
before being whisked back to jail.