Day 2 of Anwar's trial saw further legal wrangling. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP

Day two of Anwar Ibrahim's corruption trial saw further legal wrangling as well as the prosecution accuse the former Deputy Prime Minister of using the police to make witnesses retract allegations of his sexual misconduct. Anwar, according to a statement by the prosecution, used "his position of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister for his own personal interest." The prosecution's first witness, Mohamed Said Awang, director of the police security service, detailed a 1992 operation called "Solid Grip," saying it was "in regards to the sexual misbehavior of [Anwar]." He testified for approximately 30 minutes, during which time the prosecution introduced a letter to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, dated Aug. 5, 1997, from Ummi Hafilda Ali, the sister of Anwar's private secretary. According to prosecutors, that letter, plus two others, proves Anwar used the Special Branch to cajole witnesses into retracting their allegations of his sexual misconduct.

Earlier in the session, which lasted slightly less than two hours, Judge Augustine Paul--who dismissed an attempt to have the four charges thrown out on a technicality yesterday--rejected the defense's request for a stay of procedures. That would have given Anwar's legal team time to prepare an appeal of his ruling. Undeterred, Gurbachan Singh, one of Anwar's lawyers, said, "We are lodging an appeal tomorrow." According to TIME correspondent David Liebhold, Singh said the issue was "substantial rather than procedural" and could therefore not wait until the end of trial. People gathered outside the courthouse again Tuesday, and for the second straight day the protesters remained calm. Protesters said they would refrain from chanting anti-government slogans because they didn't want to provoke a crackdown by police.

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