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(HRW/IFEX) - The following is a 19 March 2008 Human Rights Watch press release:
Indonesia: Free Peaceful Protesters in PapuaActivists Face Charges for Nonviolent Expression
London, March 19, 2008 - The Indonesian government should order the ...
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Bron: www.manukoreri.netMEDIA ALERTUPDATE ON LATEST SITUATION IN WEST PAPUA, POST MARCH 3 DEMONSTRATIONSFOR IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION - WEDNESDAY MARCH 5, 2008 0800 AESTLatest CONFIRMED information received on situation inside is as follows. This is a follo...
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A human rights lawyer based in Papua is now on trial for sending an SMS
message to several friends and his brother. Iwanggin Sabar Olif, 43
years old, a volunteer lawyer with the human rights NGO, ELSHAM in
Jayapura, was arrested on 18 October last yea...
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There have been a number of serious incidents in West Papua in the past
few months. A ban on flying the Morning Star flag was reinforced by a
presidential decree late last year as 1 December, the day regarded by
Papuans as their national day, approache...
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A visit to West Papua in late November by US Congressman, Eni
Faleomavaega, ended in a debacle when his time for meetings was reduced
from five days to two hours and he was prevented from visiting the
capital of Papua province, Jayapura. The curtailmen...
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‘A climate of fear undeniably prevails in West Papua…’ says the Special
Representative of UN Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders, Hina
Jilani, in her report to the UN Human Rights Council, published in
January. The situation ...
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Among the scores of articles that flooded the world’s media after
Suharto died in January, there was hardly a mention of his devastating
role in West Papua. Yet, within weeks of his assumption of power,
Indonesia was already negotiating with a US...
