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Category: Human Rights
Breaking news: More mass arrests of peaceful protesters in West Papua during demonstration over Pacific Islands Forum
September 8, 2018
Breaking news from Bintuni Bay, West Papua. Reports that colonial Indonesian police have arrested at least 15 more people for supporting Pacific Island leaders to take West Papua to the UN. Saturday 8th September, 2018. TELUK BINTUNI- The Bintuni community again held a demonstration supporting Vanuatu to push for a…
Amnesty International to Indonesia: Authorities must stop the crackdown on public events and peaceful assemblies
September 8, 2018
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT Index: ASA 21/9040/2018 Indonesia: Authorities must stop the crackdown on public events and peaceful assemblies Amnesty International is concerned about attempts by the Indonesian authorities over the last few weeks to ban public events and peaceful assemblies relating to the political opposition’s campaign to call for…
TAPOL and the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) call for immediate release of West Papuan student and Polish tourist bring held on treason charges
September 7, 2018
JOINT STATEMENT: CALL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF SIMON MAGAL AND JAKUB SKRZYPSKI – The West Papuan and Polish pair have been charged with treason London, New York, 7 September 2018 Tapol and the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) call for immediate release of Simon Carlos Magal and Jakub Fabian Skrzypski. In the…
How much money is Indonesia spending on its war against West Papuans? Statement by Jacob Rumbiak, Spokesperson of the ULMWP.
September 6, 2018
Originally published on www.ulmwp.org How much money is Indonesia spending on its war against West Papuans? Questions at Pacific Islands Forum as 93 West Papuans arrested, and Vanuatu seeks PIF support for UN motion on West Papua. Governments at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru are no doubt wondering if
Pacific Champions call on leaders to support West Papua
September 5, 2018
Papua New Guinean heavyweight champions and founders of the Wan Papua Warriors rugby team Tala and Tomasi Kami have released video statements calling for Pacific leaders to keep the issue of West Papua at the forefront of discussions during the Pacific Islands Forum being held on Nauru this week. As…
Over 80 West Papuan people arrested for PIF demonstrations
September 4, 2018
BREAKING NEWS FROM OCCUPIED WEST PAPUA – Arrests took place on 4th September as people around the country gathered to hold peaceful rallies to support the ULMWP at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) meeting, which is currently underway on Nauru.
Indonesian police shoot, torture and arrest West Papuan students in Jayapura
August 31, 2018
This report was originally published by the Human Rights Organisation, the International Coalition for Papua (ICP) and can be read here. The International Coalition for Papua has received credible information in relation to the alleged torture and ill-treatment of two Papuan students on 27 August 2018 in the residential area…
A call for Pacific Islands Forum Leaders to take West Papua to the UN
August 28, 2018
Press Release – For Immediate Release: 26 August, 2017 Contact: Spokesperson Raki Ap Free West Papua Campaign: [email protected] West Papuan people rally to call upon Pacific (PIF) leaders to support self-determination at the United Nations. Growing solidarity across the Pacific set to mobilise to show support for West Papuan self-determination.…
Indonesian police arrest 8 West Papuan people and a Polish tourist
August 27, 2018
Jayawijaya Regional Police Arrest Touris Polish Citizens Wamena August 25, 2018, Jakob Fabian is a foreigner, a tourist from Poland, when he visited the Habema Lake Tourism, he was arrested at the TNI post Napua Wamena at: 12:20 WIT, then took him to the Police Station and was interrogated by…
West Papuan students demand to be recognized as Melanesians not Indonesians
August 21, 2018
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Spokesperson Jacob Rumbiak released a statement and video showing hundreds of students at Cenderawasih University in West Papua refusing to register for school unless their Melanesian identity was recognized. In a show of solidarity, both Indonesian and Melanesian students banned together