{"id":6580,"date":"2012-01-12T06:55:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=6580"},"modified":"2012-01-12T06:55:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T20:55:33","slug":"anwar-aquitted-of-sodomy-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=6580","title":{"rendered":"Anwar aquitted of sodomy charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anwar-freed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6581\" title=\"anwar freed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anwar-freed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anwar-freed.jpg 512w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/anwar-freed-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long before the FAT website was endorsing political candidates like Kevin Rudd and Barack Obama, thirteen years ago we were singing protest songs in support of Anwar Ibrahim, a progressive opposition candidate in Malaysia who ran against Doctor Mahatir in Malaysia.\u00a0 Anwar was jailed for trumped up sodomy charges to derail his campaign in 2000 and was freed four years later by Malaysia&#8217;s high courts.<\/p>\n<p>His party was making strong inroads politically in 2008 and once again he faced a fresh bout of sodomy charges based on flimsey evidence that was questioned by human rights observers.\u00a0 This Sunday he was once again aquitted by the high court.\u00a0 Upon his release, Anwar made his intentions known to once again run for office.\u00a0 He also slammed the Australian Labor Party&#8217;s proposal to process asylum seekers offshore in Malaysia.\u00a0 What a cool dude.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, for old times sake, here it is, the original Salt Monkey&#8217;s song about Anwar and his struggle against Mahatir Mohamad from 1999:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"629\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ezGO64z5z_w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Go get &#8217;em, Anwar! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before the FAT website was endorsing political candidates like Kevin Rudd and Barack Obama, thirteen years ago we were singing protest songs in support of Anwar Ibrahim, a progressive opposition candidate in Malaysia who ran against Doctor Mahatir in Malaysia.\u00a0 Anwar was jailed for trumped up sodomy charges to derail his campaign in 2000 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1162,146,227],"class_list":["post-6580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-anwar","tag-sodomy","tag-the-salt-monkeys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6583,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6580\/revisions\/6583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}