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Kuala Lumpur, March 10: KOMAS is pleased with the decision of the magistrate court today to bring to close the 2 and half years persecution of Lena Hendry, a member of our organisation, for screening “No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka” a documentary on war crimes in Sri Lanka. Magistrate Mohd. Rehan Mohd. Aris said that the Public Prosecutor had failed to prove a prima facie for the case and therefore the defense does not need to be called. In 2013, Lena Hendry was tasked to...

Kuala Lumpur, December 14, 2015:  Today, Lena Hendry,  our colleague and a staff of KOMAS, is undergoing trial in the criminal court for allegedly breaking the law by screening NO FIRE ZONE: THE KILLING FIELDS OF SRI LANKA, a human rights documentary film about war crimes committed during the civil war in Sri Lanka. She is the first human rights activist in Malaysia to be charged under section 6(1) and (2)of the Film Censorship Act which we feel has been arbitrarily used and politically...

Nearly 100 leading film-makers, writers, artists and lawyers from around the world have signed an open letter calling on the Malaysian government to drop charges against a human rights activist who is due to go on trial on Monday 14 December and could face up to three years in jail for screening a film on the war in Sri Lanka. Lena Hendry, of the Malaysian human rights NGO Pusat KOMAS, has been charged under Malaysia’s draconian censorship laws for screening the award-winning documentary No...

(Bangkok) – Malaysian authorities should immediately drop charges under the Film Censorship Act against rights activist Lena Hendry, Human Rights Watch and 11 Malaysian and international human rights organizations said today in letters to Malaysia’s prime minister and attorney general. Hendry’s case is slated to go to trial on December 14, 2015. The Malaysian government should also end censorship of films by repealing provisions of the law that allow unnecessary and arbitrary government...