‘It was painful,’ says Malaysia’s Anwar on his time in prison | Singapore Summit

Malaysia’s future leader, Anwar Ibrahim was jailed in 2015 for sodomy. But this year, after Malaysia’s historic election, his release by current prime minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad was dubbed as the country’s “Nelson Mandela moment.” At Singapore Summit 2018 he describes what it was like for him when he was in prison.

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