Tag: Police brutality
Call for collective global action over ‘horrific’ Israeli crimes against Palestinian...
COMMENTARY: By Qadura Fares
On August 3, last Saturday, prisoner rights institutions and Palestinians all around the world were standing in solidarity with Gaza and...
Footage of French forces officer kicking Kanak man in head surfaces...
Correction: An earlier version of this RNZ Pacific story published on 29 May 2024 attributed a statement from the French High Commission in New...
Civil group appeals to Jokowi to cancel Papuan expansion plan to...
Tabloid Jubi
The Civil Organisations Solidarity for Papua Land has condemned Indonesia's Papua expansion plan of forming three new provinces risks causing new social conflicts.
And...
Protester critically injured by rubber bullet, 7 arrested in protest over...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Papua Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) director Emanuel Gobay says a participant of a demonstration in Jayapura opposing the creation of new...
Police break up protests in Jayapura over new Papuan provinces plan
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Hundreds of Cendrawasih University (Uncen) students took to the streets last week to hold actions opposing the creation of new provinces...
Indonesian police break up Papuan petition protests in crackdown
RNZ Pacific
A series of demonstrations in the West Papua region today have been forcibly stopped by Indonesian police.
The protests were organised by a network...
PNG police release EMTV employee detained over buai market video
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Papua New Guinean police have released a detained EMTV staff man, Richard Magei, after he reportedly filmed officers destroying buai markets...
Relief at Derek Chauvin conviction sign of long history of US...
ANALYSIS: By Clare Corbould, Deakin University
The unprecedented conviction of police officer Derek Chauvin in the United States for the murder and manslaughter of George...
Papuan students report Malang police chief over racist ‘shoot to kill’...
By Igman Ibrahim in Jakarta
Malang city district police chief (Kapolres) Senior Commissioner Leonardus Simarmata has been reported to the Indonesian police's professionalism and security...
NGOs, MPs warn ‘draconian’ draft bill will turn Fiji into police...
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist
A proposed draft Police Bill in Fiji has come under intense scrutiny from civil society groups and opposition parties.
The...
Civil rights groups raise concerns about Jokowi’s next police chief
By Devina Halim in Jakarta
The Security sector Reform Coalition says there are three problems which need to be addressed when the sole candidate for...
‘Walk the talk’ human rights warning from Fiji NGO over UN...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Fiji's NGO Coalition on Human Rights has called for stronger accountability and commitment to human rights at home in response to...
ULMWP accuses Jakarta over ‘martial law’ after police fire on students
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The United Liberation Movement if West Papua (ULMWP) has accused the Indonesian government of imposing martial law on the Melanesian region...
Rallies against Indonesian labour law turn violent as police, protesters clash
By Arya Dipa and Agustinus Hari in Bandung/Manado
Protests over the past few days against Indonesia's recently passed Job Creation Law have turned violent with...
Bryan Kramer: One year in – why so quiet about corruption...
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Kramer
September 16 - yesterday - marked the 45th year of Independence for Papua New Guinea. It also marked just over a...
Thousands throng Auckland for NZ Black Lives Matter protests
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
Thousands of people took part in the Black Lives Matter protests in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin today.
Auckland's Aotea...
NZ police scrapping Armed Response Teams after trial, says commissioner
By RNZ News
Police Commissioner Andrew Coster announced today that Armed Response Teams will not be part of the New Zealand policing model in the...
Thousands rally across Australia to protest against Indigenous deaths
By RNZ News
Thousands of people were protesting across Australia today to oppose the deaths of Indigenous people in police custody.
It comes as Black Lives...
‘#PapuanLivesMatter’: George Floyd’s death exposes double standards
By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta
As the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died while being arrested in the United States, sparks a...
Toxic US politics, a brutal killing and the messengers become the...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie
Three cartoonists had especially poignant takes on the tragic and toxic political aftermath of martyr George Floyd’s brutal killing...
Indonesian police not investigating violence against journalists, says AJI
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Indonesian police have not been investigating reported cases of violence against journalists, reports Indonesian news magazine Tempo.
According to the Jakarta Alliance...
‘Not a big deal’ claim police, rejecting UN call for Papua...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Papua Regional Police public information head Assistant Superintendent Suryadi Diaz is asking all parties not to dramatise or make a big...