Sex tape: Bid to strike out part of Anwar's statement
Next week, the High Court will hear Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein’s application to strike out part of Anwar Ibrahim’s defence statement in a suit over a sex video featuring a man resembling the opposition leader.
Next week, the High Court will hear Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein’s application to strike out part of Anwar Ibrahim’s defence statement in a suit over a sex video featuring a man resembling the opposition leader.
Counsel Sunil Abraham, representing Hishammuddin, told the media today that Judge VT Singham would hear the matter on Oct 27.
On April 26, Hishammuddin (
left
) sued Anwar for defamation over an interview the latter had with the media on March 22, at the Dang Wangi police headquarters, after lodging a report, denying he was the man in the video.
The minister said the words were understood to mean that he was responsible for screening the video to a group of editors and journalists at the Carcosa Seri Negara hotel on March 21.
He said the words were also understood to mean that he had arranged for the screening of the video and plotted with the prime minister and the police top brass to have it done.
In his statement of defence, Anwar countered that the words uttered by him were published on an occasion of qualified privilege and in the reasonable protection of his own legitimate interest as opposition leader.
Anwar also filed a counter-claim, saying that Hishammuddin’s words in his press conference on March 21, gave weight to the assertion by the three persons who exposed the video, that he (Anwar) was the man featured in it.
Hishammuddin, in his reply, said Anwar had ill intentions in uttering malicious words which were later widely reported in the media and on the Internet.
He said the words were not published in good faith and that Anwar’s main motive was to injure his reputation as a minister and politician.
- Bernama
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