SIX years ago, a judge sentenced Anwar Ibrahim to the darkest period in his life. A comfortable life at his Bukit Damansara home, which he shared with his wife, Wan Azizah Ismail and six of their children, was taken away from him when he was imprisoned. He has since left that prison.

Last Thursday, at the Putrajaya Courthouse in Malaysia’s capital of Kuala Lumpur, chief judge Datuk Hamid Muhammad overturned the guilty sentence of sodomy fo