The Magistrate Court has allowed Pusat Komas programme coordinator Lena Hendry's application for her constitutional questions to be referred to the High Court.

Her lawyer New Sin Yew said Magistrate Ashraf Rezal Abdul Manan allowed Hendry's application to refer three questions on the constitutionality of section 6 of the Film Censorship Act 2002 to the High Court.

Hendry ( left ) was charged last year for the screening of a Sri Lankan civil war documentary ‘No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka’.

The documentary was screened on July 3 last year at the Kuala Lumpur Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall.

The film did not obtain approval from the Film Censorship Board.

Meanwhile, New said the magistrate had decided that the three questions posed require answers in relation to the interpretation of Article 10 of the Federal Constitution.

“The magistrate also said that the Magistrate Court was not the proper platform to answer the questions,” added New.

‘No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka’ is an investigative documentary exposing the massacre of Tamils by the Sri Lankan army in the final weeks of the long-running civil war.

Section 6 of the Film Censorship Act prohibits an individual from exhibiting a film that has not been approved by the Board and imposes a punishment of a fine up to RM30,000, or imprisonment of not more than three years, or both.