The defence team in Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy trial has applied to disqualify the judge on grounds of 'bias'.

Outside the court, Anwar described the situation as "a political trial with the unfair use of the local media".

"You can see this in the trial with what was not supposedly said, but was reported. All we want is a fair and just trial," he said.

Anwar said the media had played up the complainant's testimony about the trousers, which implicated him.