Tag: Benny Wenda
Indonesian crackdown on peaceful West Papuan UN vote petition signers
Yanto Awerkion, a West Papuan local independence leader, remains imprisoned after being arrested the Indonesian security services for collecting signatures on an Avaaz petition...
Benny Wenda accuses Indonesian police of torturing Papuan official
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
Police in Indonesia are facing allegations of torture from West Papuan independence leaders after a prominent human rights commissioner was...
New Zealand support for West Papua grows after ‘historic declaration’ signed
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Political support in New Zealand for an independent West Papua is growing after a “historic declaration” was signed during free...
Southern Cross: PNG election security, Fiji coups, Manus Island shooting, and...
Pacific Media Watch News Desk
Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie speaks to Radio 95bFM's The Wire host Amanda Jane Robinson about security operations...
‘We’ll not be safe with Indonesia,’ says West Papua’s Benny Wenda
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
A lifelong campaigner for a free and independent West Papua has issued a stark warning to New Zealand politicians as...
Indigenous West Papuans send solidarity to Standing Rock
A previous activist video on West Papua Independence Day. Video: Free West Papua
Indigenous groups from around Oceania have sent their support to the ongoing...
West Papuan documentary screened in UK cinemas
Two screenings of the award-winning documentary The Road to Home, which follows the life of West Papuan independence leader and lawyer Benny Wenda and...
Benny Wenda’s planned visit to New Zealand now on hold
Trailer for the award-winning documentary The Road To Home about Benny Wenda, the Nobel Peace Prize nominated West Papuan independence leader, in his ongoing...
Benny Wenda documentary to screen on TV Down Under
The Road to Home, an award-winning feature length documentary about British-based West Papuan human rights campaigner Benny Wenda will be screening on Australian television from...
West Papuan leader Benny Wenda plans New Zealand visit this month
Benny Wenda, spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) and a traditional tribal leader, will visit New Zealand between August 23...
PNG shuts out West Papuan leader on ‘order from top’
Octovianus Mote, secretary-general of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, says he has been refused entry to Papua New Guinea without any reason...