Saya tak akan lari, meskipun dipelawa Turki, negara Arab...

Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berikrar beliau dan keluarganya tidak akan lari meninggalkan negara ini biar pun berdepan dengan kezaliman yang menjijikan.

“Saya, anak dan isteri tidak sekali-kali meninggalkan negara ini biar pun berdepan dengan penghinaan yang begitu rupa.

“Saya telah mengadakan perjumpaan keluarga melibatkan isteri, anak dan menantu telah mencapai keputusan ini. Cuma mereka bimbang sekiranya saya sekali lagi dipenjara akan dicederakan seperti pernah berlaku sebelum ini.

“Kalau saya lari orang lain pula akan kena. Saya telah menjelaskan kepada rakan-rakan di luar negara rakyat bukan marahkan saya tetapi segelintir pemimpin yang rasuah dan zalim,” katanya dipetik Harakahdaily pada program Amanat Terakhir di padang Majlis Daerah Machang, malam semalam.

Hadir sama Timbalan Pengerusi DAP, Dr Tan Seng Giaw, Pengarah Pilihan Raya PAS Pusat, Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli dan Setiausaha Agung PKR, Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.

Anwar pada Isnin ini akan berdepan dengan keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur berhubung kes dakwaan meliwat pembantunya, Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan pada tahun 2008.

Jika didapati bersalah, ahli politik berusia 64 tahun itu menghadapi hukuman penjara sehingga 20 tahun. Anwar telah menafikan pertuduhan itu dengan mendakwa ia satu komplot kerajaan untuk mencemarkan imej beliau.

Menurut Harakahdaily, Anwar yang juga ketua pembangkang berkata, beliau telah dipelawa rakan-rakan di Turki dan negara Arab yang bersedia memberi tempat kepadanya memandangkan penganiayaan dan penghinaan terhadapnya yang masih berterusan.

Dakwanya, Perdana Menteri Turki, Tayyid Erdogan ada mempelawanya mendapat perlindungan di negara itu dan begitu juga rakan-rakan di negara Arab.

Bagaimanapun kata beliau Erdogan lebih memahami suasana sebenar kerana beliau juga pernah dipenjarakan oleh pemerintah Turki sebelum ini kerana pendakwaan yang bermotifkan politik.

“Begitu juga dengan apa yang saya hadapi sekarang, lebih kurang sama dengan Erdogan alami sebelum beliau berada di kedudukan sekarang sebagai pemimpin utama Turki,” katanya lagi.-malaysiakini

Rejecting offers of asylum, Anwar vows to stay and fight

Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, in a whirlwind nationwide tour before a verdict next week which many expect would send him back to jail, declared last night that leaving the country was the last thing on his mind, and that he would stay to fight vile accusations against him.

“I, my wife and our children will never ever leave this country even when faced with such humiliations," Anwar told tens of thousands of people who turned up for his speech in Machang, Kelantan (pic).

Also present were PAS elections diretor Dr Hatta Ramli, PKR secretary general and Machang MP Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, DAP deputy chairman Tan Seng Giaw, Kelantan speaker Nasuruddin Daud and other state PAS and PKR leaders.

Anwar said he had discussed with his family about his future.

"They worry about my safety if I were to be jailed again," said Anwar, who was assaulted under custody by then police inspector general Abdul Rahim Noor in 1998, hours after leading the September 20 rally which saw hundreds of thousands flooding Kuala Lumpur streets calling for then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad's resignation.

“If I ran away, others will be targeted. I have explained to friends overseas, that the people are not angry at me, but angry at corrupt and unjust leaders," he said, on why he refused offers to seek refuge outside the country.

Anwar revealed that such offers had been made by several Arab countries, as well as Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Anwar said Erdoğan appeared to understand Anwar's stand, as the Islamist leader had also been jailed before his party emerged victorious in the elections. - harakahdaily

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