Anwar snips Supporters' pigtails to mark freedom
AFP, Kuala Lumpur
Freed Malaysian ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim yesterday chopped off the pigtails of three ardent supporters who had not cut their hair for six years in protest at his imprisonment. In a light-hearted moment at his home hours after winning a final appeal against his conviction for sodomy, Anwar snipped off waist-length pigtails from three elderly men to loud cheers from his supporters. The politician, who is suffering from a back injury and is expected to fly to Germany soon for surgery, sat on a chair with his feet up as the three men walked up one by one for the symbolic ceremony to celebrate his surprise release. "I thought Anwar was a bad person but I found that I was wrong. I felt bad about it and I wanted to do something for him, so I decided to grow my hair long," said one of them, Mohamaded Rozi Osman, who is in his late 50s.
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Former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim is surrounded by supporters outside the Palace of Justice courthouse in Putrajaya yesterday after he was set free. Anwar left court a free man to huge cheers from hundreds of supporters after a surprise victory in his appeal against a sodomy conviction. PHOTO: AFP |
