INSTEAD of a gift, a knuckle sandwich landed on the right temple of Filep Karma, exactly on “Hari Pemasyarakatan”—the birthday of Correctional Institutions in Indonesia. The second landed on his mouth, followed by a third and a fourth.

The incident at Abepura Prison, Jayapura, Papua, at the end of April was caused by a drunken warden. “Not only that, he was treated inhumanely several times,” said Iwan Niode, Filep’s lawyer, last Frid