14 KNPB managers and members from Merauke were arrested by Indonesian police now behind the iron bars of the Indonesian colonial jailhouse. Since Sunday 13 December 2020 13:00 until now With accusation of treason (makar). 1. Charles Sraun, 38, Head of KNPB…
Peaceful demonstration against special autonomy law being processed in Jakarta by Melanesian students in West Papua was dispersed brutally by Indonesian colonial police today, Tuesday 27 October, 2020. Indonesian military were carrying shot machine guns as well on the spot.…
Published Monday 2nd December 2019, 22:47 Reports by human rights defenders and media articles mention a total of 104 arrests in multiple locations across West Papua. The arrests occurred in relation to commemorations of 1st December, which many indigenous Papuans regard…
Activists say Buchtar Tabuni, seen as a mastermind of recent protests, was forcibly taken into custody by armed troops A West Papuan independence group has accused the Indonesian police of “abducting” a leading West Papuan activist in a dramatic arrest…
Officers shot tear gas canisters into student accommodation and took 43 people into custody after reports on social mediaHelen Davidson Indonesian authorities raided a university dormitory in Surabaya on Saturday and arrested dozens of West Papuan students after a standoff…
An Indonesian lawyer says more than 150 West Papuan independence activists were arrested on Thursday. Veronica Koman says 65 remain detained in Jayapura after rallying for the support of their cause being raised at this week’s Pacific Islands Forum summit.…
An Indonesian lawyer says police have arrested dozens of West Papuan independence activists in Jayapura. Demonstrators took to the streets in several Papuan cities on Thursday in support of their cause being raised at this week’s Pacific Islands Forum leaders…
An Indonesian lawyer says police have arrested dozens of West Papuan independence activists in Jayapura. Demonstrators took to the streets in several Papuan cities on Thursday in support of their cause being raised at this week’s Pacific Islands Forum leaders…
More than 500 people have been arrested in Indonesia, after mass Papuan independence demonstrations turned violent. View image on Twitter voice of truth and freedom@khirlani Powerful action in Surabaya where 233 people were arrested for expressing themselves. When we say…
INDONESIAN security forces have arrested 50 protesters who want human rights abuses in West Papua to be addressed by Pacific leaders. The protest in Sentani called on leaders at the Pacific Islands Forum on Nauru to raise the issue of…