Asia Sentinel – A medical report surfaces saying the male aide who filed charges against the opposition leader wasn’t molested. The doctor who examined a 23-year-old male aide allegedly sodomized by Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim found no evidence of tearing or scarring that would indicate penetration, according to a medical report leaked to local journalists.

If the document is genuine, it can be expected to raise further suspicions of complicity on the part of top government leaders in attempting to destroy Anwar politically. The charges against Anwar, filed by the youth on June 28, would have ended the opposition politician’s political career and put him back behind bars, where he had spent six years from 1999 on similar charges, which human rights organizations across the world condemned as trumped up. Sodomy is a crime punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment and caning.

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Ceramah di Kuala Langat menyaksikan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim memetik pujangga besar Jawa iaitu Ronggowarsito. Pujangga ini terkenal dengan karyanya yang berjudul Zaman Edan ( Zaman Gila). Di dalam tradisi kepustakaan Jawa, seorang pemimpin harus punyai dua sifat penting. Pertamanya, sambegana dan keduanya nawungkrida, kedua-dua sifat ini membolehkan pemimpin itu memainkan peranannya di dalam masyarakat dengan baik sekali. Yang pertama itu ialah mempunyai kecerdasan akal, yang juga membawa maksud selalu ingin merempuh dan mencipta sempadan baru di dalam memahami masyarakat. Yang kedua pula tajam meramal zaman dan segala bentuk perubahan yang berlaku. Bila saja pemimpin gagal untuk menguasai ataupun memiliki kedua-dua sifat itu, tibalah zaman kena pakewuh ataupun zaman edan, zaman kacau bilau;

Hidup di zaman edan,
gelap jiwa bingung pikiran
turut edan hati tak tahan
jika tak turut
batin merana dan penasaran
tertindas dan kelaparan
tapi janji Tuhan sudah pasti
seuntung apa pun orang yang lupa daratan
lebih selamat orang yang menjaga kesadaran.

Pejabat Anwar Ibrahim

The medical report leaked today appears to confirm what we have always believed – that the allegations against Anwar Ibrahim are without merit and politically motivated.

We are deeply troubled by the allegations conveyed by some reports that the police spent three days recording a statement from the Doctor and that he and his family have gone into hiding. Every assurance must be given for his safety and protection.

The existence of this medical report further erodes any confidence the public would have in the credibility of the police report that has been filed against Anwar Ibrahim, a report which remains shrouded in secrecy. Why has this medical report has surfaced only today, over one month after the allegations were made, after Anwar Ibrahim spent a night in jail, and after the police have spent so much time and money on this case?

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Malaysiakini, July 28th 2008

By Beh Lih Yi and P. Tarani

There is no evidence that Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan was sodomised, according to the doctor who examined him four hours before he lodged a police report alleging he was sexually assaulted by PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim.

It is believed that Anwar’s former aide Saiful (left) went to two different hospitals on June 28 – the day he lodged the police report claiming that he was sodomised by his ex-boss.

He first went to Hospital Pusrawi (Pusat Rawatan Islam) in Jalan Tun Razak – a government-linked Islamic medical institution – at about 2pm.

According to a copy of the two-page medical report obtained by malaysiakini yesterday, Saiful went to the hospital complaining of ‘tenesmus’ – a medical term for difficulty and pain in passing motion.

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