Family seeks pardon for jailed Anwar

The family of jailed Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has sought a royal pardon in a last-ditch effort to try to free him from a sodomy conviction.

Anwar, 67, began a five-year prison sentence on Feb 10 after Malaysia's top court turned down his final legal appeal, ruling there was overwhelming evidence that he sodomized a former male aide.

Nurul Nuha Anwar, his second daughter, said in a statement late on Tuesday that there has been a "miscarriage of justice" against her father, whom she described as a "political prisoner".