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Continuous Repression in Papua

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

SOME human rights defender organizations denounced the indictment filed by the public prosecutor against seven residents of Papua.

Papuan people in their traditional costumes during the Yospan Papua event at the Hotel Indonesia Roundabout, Jakarta, September 2019. TEMPO/M Taufan Rengganis. tempo : 171514344446.

Usman Hamid, Executive Director of Amnesty International Indonesia, considers the indictment to be a form of criminalization of the civil and political rights of citizens. “They only voiced their political opinions in a peaceful manner,” he said on Tuesday, June 9.

In hearings at the Balikpapan District Court in East Kalimantan, in early June, seven young men from Papua face five to 17 years imprisonment. The prosecutor accused them

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