Struggle for Justice

<I>STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE</I> is the story of a courageous woman Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail of Malaysia. The mother of six children. A medical doctor. And the wife of the man who was destined to become Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.</P>On one fateful night in 1998 Azizah's life changed forever. Government forces took her husband away at gunpoint and beat him nearly to death. Azizah was thrust into a new role as opposition political leader and living symbol of the call for freedom and justice in her beloved land.</P>Threatened with arrest and thwarted repeatedly in her attempts to speak to the Malaysian people Azizah persevered in a six-year struggle to free her husband. Through it all Azizah continued to be a loving mother to her young children and a supportive wife to her husband who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in trials whose fairness was condemned by governments and human rights groups around the world.</P>While many journalists and scholars have written about Malaysia's recent political crisis <I>Struggle for Justice</I> is the first account that tells this dramatic story from the perspective of an amazing woman Dr. Wan Azizah.</P>