Malaysia

January 2005 | Risk Summary

Malaysia's most prominent opposition figure, former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, is flexing his muscles after being released from jail last year. Though barred from standing for political office until April 2008 following his arrest in 1998 on charges of sodomy and graft, Anwar is permitted to make speeches and is leading a campaign to change the Internal Security Law, which allows the government to jail people without trial. He has also made a series of international trips reviving friendships formed before his imprisonment. Though he has refrained from personal attacks on Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, Anwar's growing prominence is

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