Malaysian police increased their presence around a courthouse yesterday as a hearing
to determine if opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will be imprisoned entered a seventh day.
Anti-riot vehicles lined up along a road leading to the Federal Court as supporterscof the fromer deputy prime minister gathered outside the building in the administrative capital of Putrajaya. A panel of five judges will decide on Mr Anwar's appeal after his 2012 acquittal on a sodomy chare was overturned in March. He faces fiveyear jail term if is rejected.