Posts Tagged ‘Papuan independence’

Almost 1700 arrested in West Papua demonstrations

Tuesday, May 10th, 2016

Reports from Indonesia indicate police arrested almost 1700 people in West Papua for taking part in a series of demonstrations across the region. Most have since been released. In the wake of the arrests, New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully, not for the first time, was pressed about the rights situation in West Papua. “The Read more