Right-wing NGO Jaringan Melayu Malaysia today dared opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to openly call businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah a liar.

JMM president Azwanddin Hamzah said that Anwar should be brave enough to accept "this challenge" to support his assertion that he was a victim of a conspiracy and that he was not the man caught in a sex video.

NONE Eskay, who revealed the video with a screening for representatives of the media on March 21, had on April 29 taken a ‘sumpah laknat’ (oath-cum-curse) in a mosque, swearing that the man seen having sex with a sex worker was Anwar.

Azwanddin noted that Anwar had several times denied that he was the man in the video and accused the government, Umno and police of conspiracy against him.

"But what is strange is that Anwar has never accused Eskay of being a liar and a cheat," he said.

"As such, we in JMM urge Anwar to make an open statement that Eskay is a liar and a cheat in the episode of exposing the sex video," Azwanddin said.

"To show that he is a victim of a conspiracy, Anwar should dare to come forward and accept this challenge," he said.

If he failed to do so, Azwanddin said, the people would think that he had something to hide.

- Bernama