Sex video: ‘Charge the perpetrators’

A PKR leader takes the de facto law minister to task for legalising the screening of pornographic videos in public.

GEORGE TOWN: A Penang PKR leader today urged the police to charge the perpetrators behind the public screening of a sex video allegedly involving a top opposition leader.
State PKR legal and social service bureau head Lim Boo Chang said those responsible should be probed and charged with criminal intimidation.
He also slammed Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz for “legalising” the screening of the 21-minute clip to editors and reporters.
“How can the de facto law minister legitimatise the screening of a pornographic video? Malaysian law clearly prohibits it,” he told FMT.
The video showed a man resembling Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim having sex with a Chinese-looking woman in a room.
Anwar had denied being the person in the video and filed a police report on the matter.
Lim, a lawyer by profession, was surprised that the police had yet to detain the perpetrators for breaking the law.
Section 292 of the Penal Code prohibited any possession or screening of any form of pornographic material. The offender could face a jail term of up to three months, fine or both.
Lim said the perpetrators had also threatened to screen the pornographic video again if Anwar and his wife, PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, did not quit politics.
Expressing surprise over the perpetrators’ failure to hand over the video to the police, the PKR leader said the timing of the video screening clearly pointed to a high-level political conspiracy.
He said the screening on the same day the Sarawak legislative assembly was dissolved (Monday) to pave the way for the state election “cannot be a coincidence.”
“I’m amused why they don’t want police intervention. I challenge them to do it. But the perpetrators seem more keen on showing pornographic tapes in public,” he added.
Lim, who is also the Bukit Gelugor PKR division chief, said the screening was to put Pakatan Rakyat on a defensive campaign during the Sarawak polls, scheduled for April 16.
“It is also to erode Pakatan’s confidence in Anwar and dent his reputation,” he said.