Anwar must be returned to lock-up by 6.30pm or RELEASED..

Apparently, Anwar may be taken to the hospital (this is what I heard)...but the WHY remains the mystery.

Are they taking him to get some DNA samples, or to do some medical check-up connected with their investigation?

OR are they going to give him the "special treatment", by detaining him in the hospital rather than in a police lock-up? Remember Eric Chia...

OR, is Anwar not feeling well?

It is interesting that the Bernama News uses the word "picked-up" rather than the more correct word "arrested" - So what are they going to say later - that they merely gave him a lift to the police station to make sure he arrived by 2 pm to assist in the police investigation??? And we also have that Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wan Farid Wan Salleh saying,

“According to the information I received, he went voluntarily to the police car without any incident and that under police custody, he has given his full cooperation,” he said. - Star Online

Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wan Farid Wan Salleh said that Anwar was arrested because he would not have made it in time.....blah..blah..blah

PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim would not have been able to turn up for his scheduled appointment at the city police headquarters on time.

Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wan Farid Wan Salleh said Anwar was supposed to have gone straight to the police headquarters here after his interview at the Anti Corruption Agency in Putrajaya.

“Instead, he was on his way home. He couldn’t possibly have made it on time.

“The police were just executing a warrant of arrest against Anwar,” he told reporters in the Parliament lobby on Wednesday...." - Star Online, 16/7/2008 -'Anwar wouldn’t have made 2pm deadline'

The question that we must all be asking was why did the police arrest Anwar, who already was going to to go the the police. Anwar was allegedly arrested at 12.55 at Bukit Segambut, Kuala Lumpur....and it is really not that far away from the IPK for Anwar not to be able to make it by 2.00pm. Some Deputy Ministers and Ministers should really refrain from talking to the press if they have nothing intelligent to say...

But really WHY? WHY? WHY? did the arrest Anwar in this manner - reminding all about the arrest of 1998 - maybe hoping that anger be re-kindled, fires of 'reformasi' be re-kindled....that things may 'explode'.... this is something that we will consider later...

The law provides that a person arrested can be detained for up to 24 hours - and if further detention is required, the police must within 24 hours make the necessary application for remand.

I sincerely hope that Anwar be released this evening....without unnecessary delay...

Even if he is to be charged in court tomorrow, release him on police bail requiring his attendance in court tomorrow...

Even if his presence is still required for further investigation - the police can release him on police bail requiring him to return the following morning for continued investigations...

The Lock-Up Rules provide that the detainee has to be returned to the lock-up by 6.30pm and he will be there until 6.30am the following morning - resting. This means that whatever investigation rightly cannot proceed beyond 6.30pm.

So time is running out for the police - they have to decide NOW what they are going to do with the arrested Anwar...