March 22, 2011
Nazri: These individuals have committed all forms of crime — criminal defamation, intimidation, and the viewing of pornography in public.
“It depends on what the purpose is. They wanted to show proof that Anwar had sex with this woman, not to make a pornographic video,” said the minister in the prime minister's department.
The de facto law minister said that “if they were screening it to reporters with the intention to have witnesses, or to have on record people who can corroborate what they say, then it is not against the law.”
Opposition leader Anwar had lodged a police report earlier today and told reporters later that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein were involved in what he says was a an attack on him and Pakatan Rakyat (PR).
“These individuals have committed all forms of crime — criminal defamation, intimidation, and the viewing of pornography in public.
“My proof of high-level involvement is that why no action was taken by the police on this? How can porn be displayed publicly? It’s protection by the police,” he said.
Section 292(a) of the Penal Code prohibits the production, sale, rental, distribution and public circulation of any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, drawing, painting, representation or object.
Nazri had also pointed out that the screening was not for money or commercial purposes.
“If you are collecting money and have a show without a licence, then it’s an illegal blue movie. We all know that the intention is to report to the police and he just wanted to have witnesses,” the Padang Rengas MP said.
Anwar yesterday denied that he was the man in the video after the video was screened to selected journalists by a shadowy figure who only identified himself as “Datuk T”.
“Datuk T” had said that the video was taken from closed-circuit television camera recordings found in a hotel room in Kuala Lumpur.
Free Malaysia Today reported:
Act immediately against 'Datuk T', police told
The police must arrest 'Datuk T' immediately and take stern action against him for his public screening of a pornographic video recording, said DAP national chairperson Karpal Singh.
Karpal said the screening of the video, purportedly depicting PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim having sex with an unidentified woman in Kuala Lumpur hotel room on Feb 21, clearly violates the laws of the country,
In a statement today, Karpal said he was in left in a state of shock upon learning that police had yet to take any action to arrest 'Datuk T' following the 'public viewing' of the pornographic video clip and added, "The police ought to have sprung into action yesterday itself to arrest 'Datuk T'. He has clearly committed offences under Section 5(1) of the Film Censorship Act, 2002 and Section 292 of the Penal Code."
Under Section 5(1) of the Film Censorship Act, a person who has in his possession, control or ownership; or circulates, distributes, displays, produces, sells or hires any film material that is obscene, can be fined up to RM50,000 or jailed up to five years, or both while Section 292 of the Penal Code punishes a person who sells, hires, distributes or publicly exhibits any obscene or pornographic material with a jail term of up to three years or with a fine, or both.
In a statement today, Karpal said he was in left in a state of shock upon learning that police had yet to take any action to arrest 'Datuk T' following the 'public viewing' of the pornographic video clip and added, "The police ought to have sprung into action yesterday itself to arrest 'Datuk T'. He has clearly committed offences under Section 5(1) of the Film Censorship Act, 2002 and Section 292 of the Penal Code."Under Section 5(1) of the Film Censorship Act, a person who has in his possession, control or ownership; or circulates, distributes, displays, produces, sells or hires any film material that is obscene, can be fined up to RM50,000 or jailed up to five years, or both while Section 292 of the Penal Code punishes a person who sells, hires, distributes or publicly exhibits any obscene or pornographic material with a jail term of up to three years or with a fine, or both.
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