Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s twice-jailed former opposition leader, walked free on Wednesday afternoon, bringing an end to a tumultuous legal saga that saw the iconic politician incarcerated on sodomy charges that critics and observers have long regarded as politically motivated. “In the past it was said that I put him in prison. Now I have freed him,” Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, after Anwar’s release. He is expected to contribute to the new Pakatan Harapan led government following his release, even though he is not an MP yet, said his wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, who now serves as Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister.