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On 27th February 2015 Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu met with West Papuan independence leader and founder of the Free West Papua Campaign, Benny Wenda, in Cape Town, South Africa. He has released the following statement renewing his call for the UN to instigate an investigation into the so called Act of ‘Free’ Choice in which Indonesia […]

Filep Karma, West Papua’s most famous political prisoner refuses Indonesian president widodo’s offer of clemency because he refuses to admit any guilt. There is no guilt for West Papuan people to fly the Morning Star flag of West Papua in the land of West Papua. “If president Widodo wants to free me unconditionally, then yes […]

Free ALL political prisoners in West Papua. Filep Karma – “If Jowowi is a real democrat he will honour difference of opinion. Difference of opinion is no problem in a democratic country. He should free all political prisoners and I will be the last one to be free, after all my friends have been released […]

Press Release: Australia West Papuan Association 5 West Papuan prisoners granted clemency/media bans lifted for foreign journalists wanting to visit West Papua. Joe Collins of AWPA said, “although this first small step is encouraging, we should be cautious of Jokiei’s motives. Until all West Papuan political prisoners are unconditionally released and the lifting of travel […]

Amnesty International calls on President Joko Widodo to take immediate steps to end Indonesian security forces’ increasing attacks on freedom of expression in the country’s Papuan region. On the eve of the president’s visit to the region, at least 264 political activists there have been arbitrarily arrested and detained by the Indonesian police over the […]

Read full article on: http://news.mongabay.com/2015/0506-jacobson-oil-palm-explosion.html “Using the excuse of the conflict around the [local] independence movement, the Indonesian government makes it very difficult for international observers to access West Papua, and this has probably also resulted in a lack of awareness internationally about the ecological threats,” reads a text accompanying the report. Detailed maps by […]

Read full article on: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/68193305/indonesias-history-of-brutality

Amnesty International  says media and NGO access to the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua remains impeded and has called on Indonesia to change its attitude to foreign observers. Amnesty says President Joko Widodo promised, during his campaign in June 2014, to open up the regions. The international group says it has great difficulty […]

JAYAPURA – Police blockade Papua People’s Action, But People Not Give Up. May 1st, West Papua, around 200 people arrested, reports of 1 person shot dead and others in hospital on Friday (01/05/2015) in Nabire – West Papua. Secretary of the National Committee of West Papua (KNPB), Nesta Ones Suhuniap said Indonesian police blockaded the […]

Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside Indonesian embassies in London, Paris and other cities today to call for an end to West Papua’s 50 years of isolation. Supporters of Tapol, Amnesty International, Free West Papua Campaign and Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, wore black to protest the media black-out in Papua, and […]