PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Malaysia's Federal Court Wednesday upheld the conviction for corruption of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, blocking him from politics till 2008.
The three-member court panel unanimously upheld Anwar's conviction and sentence, barring him from returning to active politics until 2008, the official Bernama news agency reported.
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Anwar, 57, completed the jail sentence that accompanied that conviction in 1999.
He was released from prison on Sept. 2 when the Federal Court overturned a separate conviction on charges of sodomy, for which he had served nearly six years of a nine-year sentence.
Anwar is now undergoing health treatment in Munich, Germany.
