Christopher Who?

I know this is a long-time-gone case. But i was having lunch with my friend and out of nowhere we were talking about the government. And it got into long-time-gone Anwar's case (dear authority, if any of you are reading this, don't apprehend me. I'm only practising citizen's right to think critically and express them freely. Cheers!). Anyways, yes, Anwar. Do u remember the guy who was one of his defense lawyers, Christopher Fernando? What ever happened to that guy? Why is his existence no longer acknowledged? If our memories serve us right, he is, or shall i say, WAS, one of the best lawyers in our country. He must be, as he was selected to defend a fallen leader's case, a case that even the illiterate knows of, a huge one, that shocked the whole country. And then suddenly when all the drama is over, he seems outcasted.

Now the question is, why? He is a lawyer. Lawyers' jobs are to defend their clients against all odds (be their clients guilty or innocent). So having said that, Christopher Fernando was left out because he was doing his job? What's that? Okay, we assume that he is being sanctioned because he defended a person who was not in the government's side.Now let's assume that Anwar is not one of them politicians, barely a threat to the government. So assuming that he killed somebody. And Christopher is his lawyer. Does that make Christopher the killer too? Now apply that to the actual case. Anwar, undoubtly, was a major threat to the government. He did something wrong, got caught, and was put behind bars. Does that make Christopher, being his lawyer, a perpetrator too? Should we push aside someone who defended the ruling party's enemy, just because he was doing his job as a lawyer?

And being so, think about it; does the judiciary makes decisions according to the government's whims and fancies? It seems to me, that even the judiciary is being controlled by the government. Funny. So much for democracy. We might as well declare ourselves an authocratic country.