1. ALAU ANWAR HANYA BANDUAN BIASA KENAAPA NAJIB MELAWATNYA?
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   ANWAR Ibrahim's lawyer has panned Deputy Home Minister Nur Jazlan for denigrating his client by calling him a mere convict. 
   

   Lawyer N. Surendran said the incarcerated Anwar was known internationally as a "prisoner of conscience" and his persecution had been denounced by the United Nations.

   "To brand the globally respected Anwar Ibrahim a convict is a shameful and desperate act by this junior minister.

   "Even the United Nations, through its Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, has called Anwar's jailing arbitrary and urged his release. 

   "It is laughable for Nur Jazlan to ignore all this and label Anwar just another convict," he said in a statement today. 

   If the opposition leader was just another prisoner, why had Prime Minister Najib Razak visited him when he was hospitalised some months back, Surendran said.

   "If he is just a convict, why does the prime minister of Malaysia visit him?"

   Surendran, who is the Padang Serai MP, said it was also unnecessary to bar opposition prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad from visiting Anwar at the Cheras Rehabilitation Hospital yesterday .