Anwar's wife testifies at trial

Sat, 13 Mar 1999, 00:00 WIB | Source: AP

KUALA LUMPUR (AP): The wife of jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim
testified on Friday that she had seen a confidential government
document on a high-level political conspiracy against her
husband, the ousted deputy prime minister.

Azizah Ismail, who now leads the political reform campaign her
husband started, said Anwar -- accused of corruption and sexual
misdeeds -- showed her a police report in 1997 about the
existence of a plot to destroy him.

The police report was mentioned in testimony by the former
chief of police intelligence in November. But it was never
discussed in the trial because the judge ruled that Anwar could
not use the alleged political conspiracy as a defense.

Anwar was arrested on Sept. 20 and beaten by Malaysia's ex-
police chief Abdul Rahim Noor while blindfolded and handcuffed in
a jail cell.

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