Human rights NGO Pusat KOMAS launched its maiden virtual run RACE TO EQUALITY in conjunction with the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. This is a not-for-profit run with a running period from 13 May 2021 to 15 June 2021. Registration for...
The surge of racism has created grave concerns in our nation today. Unchecked racism could potentially spark extremism. Extremists reject universal human rights, have no empathy for the rights and content of other people – that is people other than their own. They...
Government should withdraw appeal. Let’s accept the lift of Allah ban and move on. We the undersigned Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) urge Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to withdraw the Government’s appeal against the High Court’s decision on 30 March to...
Pusat KOMAS will be organizing a report launch of “Malaysia Racial Discrimination Report 2015”. The launch event will be in a forum panel method, where the esteemed speakers will be sharing their insights on the topic of “The Current State of Racial Discrimination in Malaysia”. The details of the Malaysia Racial Discrimination Report 2015 launch is as below: Details: Date: 21st March 2016 Time: 10 am – 12.30 pm Venue: Armada Hotel, Petaling Jaya The speakers for the launch and forum are as...
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...
The STAR ONLINE Wednesday, 24 February 2016 | MYT 6:31 PM KUALA LUMPUR: The court has set Mar 10 for activist Lena Hendry to enter a defence against a charge of screening “No Fire Zone”, a documentary that had not been approved by the Censorship Board. Magistrate Mohd Rehan Mohd Aris said on Wednesday he would deliver a verdict after going through the submissions by the prosecution and defence. Lawyer New Sin Yew, who acted for Hendry, said the activist was entitled to an acquittal, as the...
Lena Hendry case will resume tommorow; Details as below. Please do show support. Date: 24th February 2016 Time: 2pm Place: Majistret Criminal Court 6, Left Wing, 2nd Floor, Duta Court Complex, Kuala Lumpur.
4 days of trial have ended with 7 witnesses called from the persecution side. The trial will continue on the 11th of February 2016 with the last prosecution witness at 9am Majistret Court 6 2nd Floor, Left Wing Duta Court Complex, Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur.
Pusat KOMAS condemns the attempts by certain individuals to turn the recent case of consumer rights which involves the sale and purchase between the buyer and seller of telephones at Kota Raya into a racial issue. Pusat KOMAS would also like to express our strongest objection to the violence and nonsensical responses by former soldier Mohd. Ali Baharom (Ali Tinju) who continued fanning the issue to incite hatred among different races. Instead of looking at the matter from the actual reason of...
Community Communication Centre (Komas) programme coordinator Lena Hendry has hit out at the government for violating her fundamental rights by prosecuting her over a Sri Lanka genocide documentary filmed two years ago. "I think the case has gone on too long. Prosecuting me for screening a film is definitely against my freedom of expression," Lena said outside the Kuala Lumpur Magistrate's Court. She was charged with screening the documentary without the approval of the Film Censorship Board....
Dear Attorney General Mohamed Apandi Ali, We write to you as organisations that are deeply concerned by the decision of the Malaysian authorities to prosecute Lena Hendry for her involvement in the screening of the award-winning human rights documentary, “No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka,” in Kuala Lumpur on July 9, 2013. The charges against her violate Malaysia’s obligations to respect the rights to freedom of opinion and expression, notably to receive and impart information. We...
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...