Najib fell back in his chair upon hearing the verdict, looking stunned.
Anwar IbrahimFormer PM Najib Razak was convicted in 2020 for corruption
Just the night before his lawyers had filed a motion to disqualify Malaysia's most senior judge, and the country's first female chief justice, from hearing his final appeal. "Their courage and steadfastness is exemplary in the face of the numerous challenges and tactics resorted by the former prime minister."
Mr Zarifi cites 1988 as the year in which the judiciary became both weakened and politicised - he traces it to the moment when then-prime minister Mahathir Mohamad sacked the Chief Justice and two other senior judges to ensure he won a power struggle within UMNO. Thailand's judiciary is also charged with being used as a political tool, the so-called"judicialisation of politics". The accusation has often been levelled against its highest court in particular, the Constitutional Court.
In the Philippines the judiciary's reputation suffered greatly under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.
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