'I am not Jho Low 2.0': Why PM and Azam are after me By James Chai

Malaysiakini : COMMENT | On March 7, 2015, I organised a protest called “Rise with Justice”. As a third-year law student in the UK, I would never have imagined that Malaysia would dare to use the entire state apparatus to unjustly convict Anwar Ibrahim for a second time.

Many Malaysian students in the UK did not dare to turn up for the protest, but I pushed forward with it as a student leader of Malaysia Progressives United Kingdom because I want the world to know about the deep injustices of the state.

Reformasi leaders always talk about their political awakening in 1998; mine was in 2015.

When Anwar defied all odds and became prime minister in November 2022, I wrote an article titled “Anwar made me believe in something”, about how that moment meant so much to supporters like me.

I thought about the many followers who braved through rain and storm, police brutality and tear gases, job losses and ostracisation - for that one simple idealism of seeing injustices corrected. To see Anwar free from prison, to see Anwar become the leader of the nation.

But today, Anwar and MACC chief commissioner Azam Baki are coming for me.

PurpleDragon0476 : This is an incredibly courageous and reasonable explanation, James. Wish more Malaysians had your backbone. We are supporting you and Rafizi. Onward!

Traveloka WINNING : Did Anwar ever feel the slightest embarrassment for placing his naïve supporters in the path of relentless and arguably unjust harassment? 

They were young and idealistic enough to rally for his release, yet became expendable once internal power dynamics shifted. Was he embarrassed by his choice of Azam Baki — a figure dogged by scandal — who engaged in blatant character assassination by labeling James “a wanted person,” insinuating that he was a fugitive, and creating the impression that Rafizi was under investigation for corruption when the authority in question ultimately rested with the Prime Minister? 

Did Nurul ever reflect on the irony of her father doing to others what Mahathir once did to him? If not, where does her moral compass stand? Is there any dignity or humanity left in Anwar’s family, or has the intoxication of power eclipsed both? 

Did James feel remorse for fighting for a man who kept shouting “Maha Firaun,” yet proved to be every bit as cruel, petty, and vindictive — if not more so — than Mahathir himself? Is this the Prime Minister we deserve?

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