Tag: Prison
‘It’s time to be the crowd’, Knitting Nannas tell protest against...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Wendy Bacon in Sydney
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is pleased that a Sydney magistrate jailed protester Deanna "Violet" Coco on Friday. But...
Keep Maria Ressa out of jail, #HoldTheLine tells Marcos
Pacific Media Watch
The #HoldTheLine Coalition has urged President Marcos of the Philippines to end persecution of journalists and independent media by dropping all charges...
PNG Post-Courier: ‘Laughing stock’ sorcery issue way out of control
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier
Whether the leaders of Papua New Guinea realise it or not, sorcery is a big social issue.
It is wreaking havoc while...
Auckland terror attacker ‘brainwashed’ by neighbours, mother says
The mother of Auckland's LynnMall shopping mall terror attacker in New Zealand says he was brainwashed by neighbours from the Middle East.
Ahamed Aathill Mohamed...
Amnesty calls for caution in ending NZ’s Waikeria prison protest
By RNZ News
Amnesty International is calling on New Zealand's Corrections Minister to ensure force is not used to end the impasse at Waikeria Prison...
11 prisoners shot dead, 1 recaptured and 33 flee in PNG...
By Marjorie Finkeo and Joan Bailey in Lae
Eleven prisoners have been shot dead in Papua New Guinea, one was recaptured and 33 others are...
Filep Karma reveals Jokowi’s unkept promise to free all Papua tapols
Pacific Media Centre
Former Papuan political prisoner Filep Karma says President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo promised to release Papuan political prisoners during his administration.
Widodo made this...
Indonesia helping PNG citizen repatriations from West Papua
By Clifford Faiparik in Port Moresby
Repatriation of about 120 Papua New Guinea citizens from the Papua province of Indonesia to West Sepik under the...
France fails to uphold human rights of Tahiti prisoners, rules European...
By RNZ Pacific
France has been found guilty of breaching the human rights of prisoners in French Polynesia by treating them in a degrading manner.
The...
Indonesian court convicts mining protester over ‘communist’ symbol
By Yovinus Guntur in Banyuwangi, Indonesia
An Indonesian court has convicted and sentenced an environmentalist to 10 months in prison on a charge of spreading...
‘Jail for life’ offer for freedom of co-accused in Fiji sedition...
By Repeka Nasiko in Lautoka, Fiji
One accused walked away a free man yesterday while another offered to serve a life sentence if the High...
Five PNG police officers sentenced to 87 years in jail for...
By Sally Pokiton in Wewak, Papua New Guinea
A former Papua New Guinean police station commander, Chief Inspector Sakawar Kasieng, has been sentenced to seven...
Ahok’s defeat marks tough future for democratic, tolerant Indonesia
By Muhamad Al Azhari and Eko Prasetyo in Jakarta
Incumbent Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's defeat at the hands of rival candidate Anies Baswedan...
Twelve Nobel Prize winners, a Beatle, and the Pope can’t all...
On September 18, 2013, two Greenpeace International activists were arrested during a peaceful protest at a Gazprom oil platform in the Russian Arctic. A...
