Free West Papua Campaign

News from Sydney, Australia. People of Sydney hold candle lit vigils to support the people of West Papua on the their long road to freedom. All over Australia 1000’s of people are finding out the truth about West Papua. The truth about Indonesia’s fraudulent and illegal annexation of West Papua. And the truth about Indonesia’s […]

In support of freedom and an end to the suffering in West Papua, there will be 2 candlelit vigils in Australia on 5th June later this week. Sydney 5th June, 17:30 to 19:30 Sydney Town Hall Melbourne 5th June, 17:30 to 19:30 Melbourne City Square Sydney  In Sydney, a vigil will be held outside Sydney […]

SYDNEY – Free West Papua Campaign Sydney will launch on this Friday, 5th of June 2015  in Sydney Australia, therefore we are greatly to invite everyone to come in Free West Papua gear and help us pray for the Freedom of West Papua and people of West Papua who live in exile or West Papua […]

Today the Free West Papua Campaign held a demonstration outside the Indonesian Embassy in London, United Kingdom to call for West Papua to be free and to return to the Melanesian and greater Pacific family. We stood in front of the Embassy in Grosvenor Square and despite the rain we were determined to stay and […]

Yesterday on 21st May, Benny Wenda gave a talk at the Oxford Black Students Union about West Papua’s struggle against Indonesian colonialism and discrimination. Benny explained to the students that his people were not fighting to overthrow political power but were peacefully fighting purely to stop Indonesia’s colonialism, discrimination and racism in West Papua. In […]

On 11th May Benny Wenda gave a talk at the University of Sheffield School of Law in the United Kingdom. He talked about how the case for West Papua was very strong under international law, after West Papua was illegally occupied by Indonesia without the consent of the West Papuan people. Benny said that Indonesia […]

The Oxford Black Students Union is blessed to be inviting one of the most formidable freedom fighters of our time – Benny Wenda.  Benny is a West Papuan independence leader, international spokesman for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), and founder of the Free West Papua Campaign.  In his youth, he witnessed the […]

The leader of the movement to Free West Papua, Benny Wenda, was scheduled to be on our show live in studio today. But yesterday, at the airport in London, when he attempted to check in for his flight to the US, he was detained by Department of Homeland Security officials who informed him that his […]

Benny Wenda is a West Papuan independence leader and an international lobbyist for the independence of West Papua from Indonesia. Mr. Wenda was put on trial in 2002 for allegedly leading a procession of people in an independence rally. He escaped from prison and was smuggled to the UK by an NGO, where he has […]

Press Release West Papuan Independence Leader and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Benny Wenda Tours South Africa Exiled tribal leader Benny Wenda came to South Africa on the 16th of February to seek support for self-determination and freedom for his people in West Papua, who are currently suffering under the brutal Indonesian occupation. West Papua is […]