Komas staffer to be charged over Sri Lanka film screening

Pusat Komas programme coordinator Lena Hendry is expected to be charged tomorrow (Thursday) for the screening of Sri Lanka civil war documentary 'No Fire Zone' last July.

According to Lena (left), she was instructed to be available to be charged at the Kuala Lumpur Magistrate's Court, believed to be under the Film Censorship Act 2002.

"There were three of us investigated over the matter but only I have been called for charging," she told Malaysiakiniyesterday.

Others arrested during the Home Ministry raid of the film screening the Kuala Lumpur Chinese Assembly Hall on July 8 were Komas coordinators Anna Har and Arul Prakash.

The documentary 'No Fire Zone: In the Killing Fields on Sri Lanka' is an investigative documentary exposing the massacre of Tamils by the state army in the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War.

During the operation, the enforcers even demanded to bringMalaysiakinichief reporter Abdul Rahim Sabri (right in photo) to the police station but were again stopped by a lawyer.

They relented after going through the journalist's bag.

Utusan Malaysia in its report of the raid, had allegedly referred to the three Komas staff as "suspected supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) militants", prompting Komas to issue a letter of demand against the daily.