Lucy Hocking's was joined on BBC World News by Baroness Cox, the founder of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust charity and by Nurul Islam, of the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation.

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This new class of reformers includes Mr. Anwar's soft-spoken but charismatic daughter, Nurul Izzah Ibrahim, who won one of the election's hardest-fought battles, prevailing against a well-funded federal minister in a middle-class Kuala Lumpur district.

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