From Malaysian Insider
By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim  today filed his appeal against the Syariah High Court’s decision to strike out the qazaf, or false declaration suit against his sodomy accuser Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

However the appeal was rejected by the court’s registrar officer.

The officer claimed that she was instructed by Dang Wangi police not to accept the application.

She said that Anwar’s lawyers had to talk with the “sergeant” who was on his way from Dang Wangi.

When Anwar returned to the registrar office, the officer said that the notice will now be accepted.

She explained that she had contacted a high-ranking official and the “datuk” gave instructions for the application to be accepted.

Anwar told reporters that he was not surprised that the government is treating him like “the enemy of the state.”

The Syariah High Court had decided the qazaf application made by Anwar against his accuser was “frivolous, vexatious, and an abuse of the Islamic justice system.”

Anwar had filed an application for the court to order Federal Territory (FT) Syariah chief prosecutor Shamsuddin Hussain to charge his former aide for making false accusations of being sodomised by him.

Shamsuddin had declined to prosecute, which prompted Anwar to have the court instruct the Syariah chief prosecutor to act on his qazaf application.