{"id":5354,"date":"2012-10-29T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T09:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/?p=5354"},"modified":"2012-10-29T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T09:05:37","slug":"the-world-tomorrow-anwar-ibrahim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/the-world-tomorrow-anwar-ibrahim\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Tomorrow : Anwar Ibrahim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has twice been imprisoned after what he calls politically-motivated cases. But he keeps fighting for democracy in a country he brands less democratic than even Burma.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim&#8217;s opposition party is gaining more and more support from the Malaysian people. They&#8217;re fighting for democracy, something the former deputy prime minister describes as &#8220;an independent judiciary, free media and an economic policy that can promote growth and the market economy.&#8221; He now faces fresh charges over his part in a mass rally for electoral reforms. If found guilty he may be sentenced for up to two years in prison and a fine, which could mean he was disqualified from standing in elections.<\/p>\n<p>But he remains optimistic on the future of Malaysia, describing his 2008 campaign to get elected to parliament. &#8220;We won 10 out of 11 parliamentary seats, and so I believe we are ripe for some sort of Malaysian Spring through the electoral process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qs992gkUhhk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fmoui.net%2Fblog%2F2012%2F10%2Fthe-world-tomorrow-anwar-ibrahim%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has twice been imprisoned after what he calls politically-motivated cases. But he keeps fighting for democracy in a country he brands less democratic than even Burma. Ibrahim&#8217;s opposition party is gaining more and more support from the Malaysian people. They&#8217;re fighting for democracy, something the former deputy prime minister describes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,208],"tags":[701,382,688],"class_list":["post-5354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-human-rights","tag-human-rights","tag-malaysia","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"3":{"name":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"208":{"name":"Human Rights","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/category\/human-rights\/"}},"tags_names":{"701":{"name":"Human Rights","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/human-rights\/"},"382":{"name":"Malaysia","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/malaysia\/"},"688":{"name":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/politics\/"}},"comments_number":"2","wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmP7-1om","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5359,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions\/5359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}