News Stories
Category: Human Rights
Mass protest forces release of two political prisoners
August 3, 2013
Last Monday two West Papuan political prisoners, Edison Kendi and Yan Piet Maniamboy, were released following mass protests calling for their freedom. The two men had just been given 18 month and 2 year jail sentences for “rebellion” an antiquated…
Film shows Indonesian death squad leaders re-enacting massacres
July 23, 2013
A new film, ‘The Act of Killing,’ has recently been released which shines a light on the brutal killing of up to a million Indonesians by military and paramilitary forces from 1965. The killers were backed by the United States…
Indonesia affirms restrictions to freedom of expression in Papua to UN
July 20, 2013
Joint Press Release by Franciscans International, Human Rights and Peace for Papua (ICP), Imparsial, KontraS, Tapol and the West Papua Network (July 11, 2013, Geneva) On July 10 and 11, 2013 the UN Human Rights Committee reviewed the implementation of…
Indonesian military shoot dead 11 year old West Papuan girl
July 17, 2013
We have some incredibly tragic news to report from West Papua. It has now been confirmed that Arlince Tabuni, an 11 year old girl was shot dead by the Indonesian military (TNI) on 1st July 2013 in Popume village, Mukoni District…
Protest and memorial for the Biak massacre
July 7, 2013
Yesterday the Free West Papua Campaign held a day of action and remembrance in commemoration of the tragic events of 6th July 1998, where on the island of Biak, West Papua, over 200 innocent West Papuan people were brutally killed…
Buchtar Tabuni arrested in MSG protest crackdown
June 12, 2013
Head of the West Papua National Parliament and a West Papua National Committee (KNPB) leader, Buchtar Tabuni has been arrested today by dozens of heavily armed Indonesian police whilst going to watch a soccer game, following a mass KNPB protest he led the day…
Australian politicians clash over West Papua
June 6, 2013
Senator Di Natale has raised the deteriorating human rights situation in West Papua during a Parliamentary questions exchange with Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bob Carr.
Massacre in West Papua highlands – over 40 people feared dead
May 28, 2013
At least 18 people including children found brutally mutilated and murdered, 2 people raped and 30 adults, 2 children missing after a lethal Indonesian military operation in one highlands…
Three KNPB members released, chairman still in prison – Take action
May 21, 2013
Following our urgent action campaign to release the KNPB members who were arrested on 13th May, we are pleased to inform you that Marten Manggaprouw, Yongky Ulimpa and Ely Kobak have been released. Sadly, the KNPB chairman Victor Yeimo remains in…
Disturbing footage of Indonesian army attack on Papuan village
May 21, 2013
Disturbing footage of the Indonesian army (TNI) violently attacking a village in the Puncak Jaya region of West Papua has been released. The footage, filmed by one the soldiers, shows shots being fired into houses terrifying children, people are beaten…