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Anwar Ibrahim
7th Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia In office 1993 – September 2, 1998 Preceded by Succeeded by
Born Political party Spouse Occupation Religion
Tun Ghafar Baba Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
August 10, 1947 (age 60) Cherok Tok Kun, Penang Keadilan (previously Barisan Nasional, UMNO) Datin Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail Civil Servant Islam
Dato' Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim (born August 10, 1947) is a former deputy prime minister and finance minister of Malaysia. Early in his career, he became a protege of the former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir bin Mohamad, but subsequently emerged as the most prominent critic of Mahathir's administration. In 1999, he was sentenced in a highly controversial trial to six years in prison for corruption and in 2000 to another nine years in prison for alleged homosexual acts. However, in 2004, the Federal Court (Malaysia's highest) reversed the second conviction and he was released.