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From: AFP
Date: 03 May 1999
Time: 22:58:08
KUALA LUMPUR, May 4 (AFP) - Malaysia's ousted deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, sentenced to six years in jail for corruption last month, will go on trial on June 7 on a fresh charge of sodomy, a High Court judge ruled Tuesday. Justice Abdul Wahab Patail also barred lawyers from talking to the media and ordered all journalists to restrict their reports to the court proceedings.
"No counsel, person or party shall make any comment, statement or interview in relation to the proceedings," he said.
"Only factual evidence or submissions is permitted to be published. Any reporter from any media breaching the order shall be barred from court."
Anwar was fired by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in September last year and arrested two a half weeks later as a threat to national security, unleashing the biggest anti-government protests here in decades.
His earlier trial for corruption started in November and ended last month with his conviction on all four charges.