Febuary 04 , 2000 20:24PM

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 (Bernama) -- The Court of Appeal will hear on Feb 28 Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's appeal against his conviction and jail sentence imposed by the High Court for abuse of power.

Anwar's counsel S.N. Nair informed reporters this when met at the High Court today. On April 14, Justice Datuk S. Augustine Paul found Anwar guilty of interfering in police investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct against him.

The former deputy prime minister was sentenced to six years' jail on each of four charges with the sentences to run concurrently from that day.

Anwar, 52, is now on trial for allegedly sodomising his wife's former driver Azizan Abu Bakar. In the petition of appeal filed on May 22 last year, Anwar listed 29 grounds including that the sentence imposed on him was manisfestly excessive.

He said the judge failed to exercise his discretion judicially in that he allowed himself to be influenced by irrelevant questions and failed to take into account or to give due regard to the questions relevant to the imposition of sentence.

On the sentence, Anwar said the refusal by the judge to take into account the period during which he was in prison on remand was unreasonable. Anwar was removed from the government and Umno in September 1998 and later detained under the Internal Security Act for leading a demonstration.

The charges he is appealing were made later and he continued to held in prison as the court refused to grant him bail. -- BERNAMA