Tag: Murder

By Fern Napwatt and Glenda Willie in Port Vila The Supreme Court in Vanuatu has sentenced Philip Jimmy, a man found guilty of murdering his...

By Walter Zweifel of RNZ Pacific It's 20 years today since French Polynesian journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud vanished. "JPK", as he was widely known, left no trace,...

By  Dames Alexander Sinaga in Jakarta Almost 13 years to the day since human rights activist Munir Said Thalib was poisoned with arsenic aboard a...

By Katharina R. Lestari in Jakarta Church officials and human rights activists believe Indonesia could be heading down the same path as the...

WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC CONTENT: Bodies pile up in the Philippines as Duterte’s controversial "war on drugs" continues after the President tells citizens to deal...

By Jimmy Domingo in Manila Human rights activists in the Philippines have launched a movement to demand the immediate end of summary executions of suspected...

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...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is outraged by Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s comment that corrupt journalists are legitimate murder targets and urges the Philippine media...

Al Jazeera's Jamela Alindogan reports on the Philippine army defending its operations against the armed Abu Sayyaf group in the south of the country...

After more than half a century without clarity on the identity of perpetrators or those who orchestrated the event, some survivors and victims of...

By Mark Bowling Allegations of recent military and police intimidation, beatings and torture, kidnapping and murder in West Papua, have been documented in a new...

By Ellen Stolz in Suva Niine Fiji police officers charged in relation to the death of Vilikesa Soko after he had been in  custody in...