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BANGKOK, Thailand — Police officers wearing ski masks seized Malaysia’s leading opposition politician, Anwar Ibrahim, on Wednesday and took him to jail on suspicion of sodomy.
After saying he would be freed, the police held Anwar in custody for at least one night.
Anwar, 61, has strongly denied the accusation of sodomy, which was made last month by a 23-year-old male aide. He called it a political fabrication by the same governing establishment that convicted him on charges of sodomy and corruption in 1998. The sodomy charge was overturned. Sex between males is against the law in Malaysia.
