Anwar accuses Hisham of slander, files counter-claim in sex video row
By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has accused Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein of slander in relation to the latter’s remarks on the sex video screening on March 21.
Anwar has also filed a counter-claim against the Home Minister’s defamation suit against him.
“We have filed defense to Hishammuddin’s claims and have also filed a counter-claim to his defamation suit.
“Basically slander in relation to what he (Hishammuddin) said during a press conference in Bukit Aman on March 21, and misfeasance of public office (failing to stop the screening of the sex video),” one of Anwar’s lawyers K. Shanmuga told The Malaysian Insider.
The Home Minister had charged Anwar of defaming him and sought a High Court order demanding that Anwar apologise for linking him to the release of the now infamous sex video.
Anwar had during a press conference outside the Dangi Wangi police station on March 22, accused Hishamuddin as well as Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak of being involved with the sex video screening which allegedly shows Anwar having sex with an unidentified woman.
Both Najib and Hishamuddin had denied any involvement of the police and home ministry over the emergence of the sex video.
Anwar is now seeking for unspecified damages from Hishammuddin for slander in relation to what the Home Minister had said during a press conference at the Bukit Aman police headquarters on March 21.
He is also seeking for costs, interest and other relief deemed fit by the court.
“That’s right, I filed the counter-claim today. The case is up for case management in early June,” Anwar told The Malaysian Insider when contacted.
