Tag: justice
Vanuatu rights advocate Jenny Ligo blasts failed case against accused drivers
By Len Garae in Port Vila
Vanuatu gender and human rights advocate Jenny Ligo has called on the Minister of Justice to "revisit resources" made...
Somare’s answer to Singapore claims: ‘I have never received inducements or...
By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby
The founding father of Papua New Guinea, Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, has maintained that at no time in...
Jailed Vanuatu MPs may face longer sentences after new conspiracy rulings
Eleven former Vanuatu MPs and one lawyer have been found guilty of conspiracy in a bribery case in which they were originally sentenced to...
Students’ lawyer served with contempt charges over UPNG campus unrest
By Peter Kinjap in Port Moresby
The University of Papua New Guinea has served a contempt charge against the Students Representative Council lawyer Laken Lepatu...
Indonesia executes four convicted drug traffickers on penal island
Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen reporting from Jakarta on the international appeals to halt the Indonesian executions. Video: Al Jazeera on YouTube
The Indonesian government has...
Protests over new harassment of PNG journalists at court hearing
By Nadia Marai in Port Moresby
Media staff have been threatened and harassed by supporters of Western Province Governor Ati Wobiro, provincial administrator Madowa Gumoi...
Wiranto appointment confirms ‘deep-rooted impunity’ in Indonesia, say rights groups
Three human rights groups, TAPOL, ETAN, and Watch Indonesia!, have condemned President Joko (Jokowi) Widodo's appointment of former Indonesian military commander General (Ret.) Wiranto...
President Duterte’s war on crime: A nuclear explosion of violence
OPINION: By Atty. Jose Manuel "Chel" I. Diokno
President Duterte's war on crime in the Philippines has spawned a nuclear explosion of violence that is...
PNG appoints retired judge Andrew to head university violence probe
Papua New Guinea's government has appointed retired judge Justice Warwick Andrew as Chair of the Commission of Inquiry established to investigate recent violence at...
Court orders students to serve papers on UPNG in ‘ambush’ lawsuit
By Sally Pokiton in Port Moresby
An urgent application filed by the Students Representative Council president Kenneth Rapa against the University of Papua New Guinea...
EXCLUSIVE: Human rights defender tells of migrant worker exploitation to Thai...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Nid Satjipanon in Bangkok
On 2 June 2016, human rights activist and lawyer Andy Hall took to the witness box in a...
Free jailed Wewak students now, says PNG opposition leader
By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby
Opposition Leader Don Polye has called on Papua New Guinea's police hierarchy to immediately release students detained in the...
Court dismisses PNG police chief’s bid to block judicial review
An appeal by Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner Gari Baki against a judicial review on the suspension of Thomas Eluh and the termination of...
Court rejects students’ bid to have police legally removed from UPNG
By Vasinatta Yama and Serah Aupong in Port Moresby
An urgent application by the University of Papua New Guinea's Student Representative Council (SRC) president Kenneth...
Former Chief Ombudsman calls for investigation into PM allegations
Former Chief Ombudsman and Police Commissioner Illa Geno in the EMTV News video.
By Serah Aupong in Port Moresby
Former Chief Ombudsman and Police Commissioner Illa...
Death penalty has no deterrent effect, say Indonesian activists
The number of drug convicts keeps rising despite the implementation of the death penalty in Indonesia, showing that capital punishment is not that effective...
Peter Laska: PNG students now need a Plan B – ‘people...
OPINION: By Peter Laska in Port Moresby
What I want to write about is what many University of Papua New Guinea students seem to be...
Defence recruit foreign lawyers for Vanuatu conspiracy case
By Thompson Marango in Port Vila
Two lawyers from Australia have been taken on board the defence team representing 11 of the jailed Vanuatu politicians...
Four human rights groups call for Indonesian ‘truth-seeking’ inquiry, apology
Four human rights watchdogs have appealed to Indonesia's Minister for Politics, Law and Security Affairs to take steps to ensure that last week’s national...
Manus Island detention centre to close following PNG court ruling
The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea has announced the Manus Island immigration detention centre will be closed down after the country's Supreme Court...
PNG Supreme Court rules detention of asylum seekers illegal
Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court has ruled Australia’s detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island is illegal.
A copy of the PNG Supreme Court judgment...
PM O’Neill accuses Somare and Morauta of political ‘sour grapes’
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says recent calls by former prime minister and the country's founding leader Sir Michael Somare to leave...
