Both sides address whether Saiful should be charged
“Usually, the victim would be given protection”
But within that statement is the crux of the argument. if there was an act, and given that the evidence available indicates that the act was not forcible, was Saiful a victim? But if Saiful was a victim, why are the charges against Anwar for consensual sodomy (Section 377B of the Penal Code), and not rape?
Remember now, Saiful’s police report of 28 June alleged that he was “forcibly sodomised.”
Things just don’t add up.
Just after posting bond, Anwar raised this question with reporters outside the courthouse; again, asking why his accusor had not been charged.
“Just imagine if Saiful had to sit in the same dock with me, what to do?” he asked as he winked at reporters and laughed aloud.
Of course, Anwar in his typically colorful fashion didn’t end there:
He also said that he had been teased and advised by his friends that he should learn a lesson not to have a “young, smart and handsome man around me”.
“I was told that I couldn’t bring a pretty girl. She (his wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail) will object.
“I cannot bring a young man or old man. I can only bring an 80-year-woman on a wheelchair. I will be safe. If it’s a pretty girl, Azizah will strangle me,” he said with laughter.
To be fair, given the state of Malaysian politics, it isn’t entirely clear that one should assume 80-year-old-women in wheelchairs are all that safe these days either.
