Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian opposition leader, has suffered a setback in his sodomy trial, as a court decided to accept the key DNA evidence that had been earlier rejected as inadmissible. The country’s High Court, on Wednesday, said it would let prosecutors use the evidence in their bid to link Anwar to traces of semen found on his accuser, a 25-year-old former aide. The surprise reversal of the decision came after an appeal by the prosecution, and after the court had heard new testimony from police. “It is clear that [Anwar's] arrest was lawful and the detention was for a lawful purpose,” judge Zabidin Mohamed Diah told a packed courtroom. “This court has no choice but to allow these…
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