Malaysia's Anwar arrested

Police arrested Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Wednesday, less than an hour before a deadline for him to appear at police headquarters to answer allegations that he sodomized a male aide.

About a dozen policemen, some of them wearing balaclavas, cordoned off the road leading to Anwar's house and stopped his car, said his lawyer Sankara Nair. The policemen informed Anwar that they had orders to arrest him, said his lawyer Sankara Nair.

"They arrested him. No reason was given," said Nair. He said Anwar was bundled into a police car and taken to the police headquarters. No one else from Anwar's entourage was allowed to get into the car with him, he said. There was no trouble or violence.

-AP