YouTube removes sex video implicating Malaysian opposition leader
April 5th, 2011 - 2:36 pm ICT by ANI
Kuala Lumpur, Apr 5 (ANI): YouTube has removed a sex video implicating Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, citing violation of its policy on ‘nudity and sexual content’.
The Star quoted a YouTube notice posted at about 11.35pm as saying that the video “was removed as a violation of YouTube’s policy on nudity or sexual content”.
The one-minute and 47-second clip was uploaded on YouTube on Sunday and was also discovered on Facebook on Monday.
Meanwhile, media editors who had seen the 22-minute video on March 21 have confirmed that the footage was the same.
Following the incident, three men have reportedly claimed responsibility for the screening of the sex video. The trio, who called themselves Datuk T, are former Malacca chief minister Abdul Rahim Tamby Chik, businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah and Perkasa treasurer Shuaib Lazim. Eskay had earlier admitted to the media that he was also in the video.
Anwar however, has denied being part of the video, and has already lodged a police report saying that he is not the man in the video.
“Now, the video has been distributed. And whether the person looks like me or not, I don’t care. It wasn’t me,” the paper quoted him, as saying.
The clip does not show any sexual act in detail as only beginning of the original 22-minute recording have been seen playing on the site.
It shows a man wrapped in a towel walking around in a room in the presence of another man dressed in slacks and a short-sleeved shirt. A woman with Chinese features is seen sitting on a bed wearing a tube dress before going to the bathroom and emerging only in a towel.
A sentence in Thai language could be seen across the screen, raising speculation that the video was uploaded in Thailand. (ANI)
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