Tag: Protest
Six activists detained for staging palm oil shipboard rally, says Greenpeace
By Ivany Atina Arbi in Jakarta
Six Greenpeace activists have reportedly been detained by the captain of the tanker Stolt Tenacity for staging a rally...
Nepal’s new legal codes spark medical, media protests and divide nation
Nepal has recently updated its legal system with new civil and criminal codes. However, writes Rahul Bhattarai of Asia Pacific Report, failure to consult...
Plea to Jokowi: Free all Maluku and West Papuan political prisoners
OPINION: By Glenn Fredly in Jakarta
The remarks of renowned American philosopher John Dewey, "If you want to establish some conception of a society, go...
Oil victory thanks to NZ ‘people power’, says Greenpeace chief
By Rahul Bhattarai
Greenpeace executive director Russel Norman praised the “people power” that gained an important victory in the “oil war” when the Rainbow Warrior...
Gallery: From fighting nukes to stopping oil – Rainbow Warrior
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior 3, will arrive in Auckland tomorrow on the next stage of her "Making Oil History" tour...
Fiji judge orders retrial in ‘hate graffiti’ spray painting sedition case
By Jessica Savike in Suva
Fiji High Court judge Justice Vinsent Perera has ordered a retrial of former opposition SODELPA parliamentarian Mosese Bulitavu and Fiji...
Indonesian police break up Papuan ‘New York’ pact protest in Ternate
By Arnold Belau in Jayapura
Police have violently broken up a peaceful action being held by the Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) in...
Indonesian police detain 49 in attack, vandalising of Papuan dormitory
By Bastian Tebai in Surabaya
Indonesian police last night arrested 49 Papuan students who live at the Kamasan Papuan Dormitory in the East Java provincial...
Media freedom groups protest over detained Bangladeshi photojournalist
By Global Voices
Late on the night of August 5, 2018, award-winning Bangladeshi photographer and activist Dr Shahidul Alam was forcibly abducted from his house...
An open letter to Israel: The global ‘blockade busters’ ...
By Chris Graham on board the Al Awda
By the time you read this, I’ll be sailing on an old, converted fishing trawler from Sicily,...
Mendi mayhem destroyed 42,000 vaccine shots for PNG children
By Sally Pokiton in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's mayhem in the Southern Highlands capital of Mendi earlier this month caused destruction of 42,000 vaccine...
Uneasy calm in PNG’s Highlands as O’Neill sends in massive force
BRIEFING: By Keith Jackson
This week turned out to be one of those only too frequent turbulent periods in Papua New Guinea when you never...
Angore landowners set LNG machinery on fire in more PNG unrest
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
In a show of frustration over the nonpayment of a business development grant, Angore landowners in Hela province have set fire...
Former military chief warns PNG soldiers could be ‘outgunned’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A former Papua New Guinea military commander has warned that he is "concerned, if not frightened" that the PNG Defence Force...
Mendi community leaders welcome emergency state in PNG ‘wake up call’
Southern Highlands community leaders talk about the post-election crisis in their province. Video: EMTV News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Community leaders from the troubled Southern Highlands...
PNG troops arrive in Mendi – PM and politicians apologise for...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
More than 100 Papua New Guinea soldiers from Taurama Barracks First Royal Pacific Islands Regiment arrived in the Southern Highlands capital...
Frustrated PNG tribesmen capture 2 policemen – seize vehicles, weapons
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Two Papua New Guinean police vehicles travelling from Hagen to Hela in the Highlands after servicing were fired on today in...
PNG opposition demands PM O’Neill resign over Mendi torching riot
Oro Governor Gary Juffa speaks during the Opposition demand for Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's resignation. Video: EMTV News
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's Opposition...
O’Neill imposes PNG curfew, vows arrests in wake of Mendi torchings
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea authorities have imposed a 6pm to 6am curfew in the Southern Highlands provincial capital of Mendi to prevent...
Protesters in PNG’s Highlands torch plane, shut Mendi airport
By RNZ Pacific
Protesters in the Papua New Guinea Southern Highlands town of Mendi have torched a plane and closed the airport.
Earlier, the local police...
Human rights campaigner Mike Treen talks about Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Mike Treen talks to Palestinian writer Ramzy Baroud on why he is going on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in July in a bid to...
Gaza under siege – but Palestinians ‘will never give up’, says...
By Rahul Bhattarai in Auckland
Palestinian author and a journalist Dr Ramzy Baroud vowed today that Palestinians would never be defeated by the Israelis and...