Tag: Students
Vanuatu sends team to check students after PNG campus violence
By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila
A Vanuatu government team left for Port Moresby today to conduct an on-the-ground assessment of the crisis at...
Engan students call for PNG inquiry into Goroka campus clash
By Philip Kepson in Wabag
The Engan students at the University of Goroka have called on the Papua New Guinea government to investigate what was...
Death of PNG student denied, protest action continues at 3 campuses
Papua New Guinea authorities deny a student has died from the police crushing of a protest at the University of PNG last Wednesday, but...
Unitech ‘guarantees safety’ for students while UPNG now quiet
By Rocky Issou and NauFM News
The Unitech administration in Papua New Guinea's second city of Lae has condemned last week's shooting by police of...
Two Mt Hagen high school students arrested in Highlands protest fallout
The EMTV News report yesterday about the Mt Hagen high school arrests following social media images of the police opening fire on students at...
Highlands unrest following PNG police crackdown on students grounds flights
Graphic student footage of police firing on protesters on Wednesday at the University of Papua New Guinea shows sustained gunfire and tear gas grenades...
RSF calls for end to PNG police violence against journalists
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it is appalled by a police attack on a woman journalist during a student demonstration that was dispersed violently...
USP student journalists condemn ‘highly reckless’ police in PNG shootings
Student journalists at the University of the South Pacific have condemned the Papua New Guinea police for the "highly reckless" open firing into a...
‘They shot at us like we’re trying to rob a bank,’...
Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says the confrontation could have been avoided in a statement to the nation on EM TV News tonight.
By Luke Kama...
‘Shut up’ calls as MPs question PNG government about armed police
Shouts of "shut up" and "don't directly insult me" resounded in Papua New Guinea's national Parliament when Rabaul MP Dr Allan Marat asked who...
Amnesty International protests over ‘disgraceful shootings’ of PNG students
The shooting of students peacefully protesting in Port Moresby yesterday is a disgraceful attack on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression,...
PNG media council condemns police assault on journalist during protest
The Media Council of Papua New Guinea has condemned a police assault on a woman journalist during yesterday's confrontation between University of Papua New...
Gallery: Peaceful protest scenes end in police crackdown at UPNG
Several students were wounded when police opened fire today with tear gas and with what they said were warning shots against a University of...
Somare condemns police for firing on UPNG students – 8 wounded
The founding father and Governor of East Sepik Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare has condemned the actions of police this morning at the University...
PM O’Neill says an inquiry will probe police shootings at UPNG
Prime Minister Peter O'Neill announced today that a Commission of Inquiry will be established as soon as possible to investigate this morning’s police shooting...
Protesting students shot in crackdown over UPNG march
At least one University of Papua New Guinea student was allegedly shot in the back at the main Waigani campus in the capital of...
UPNG medical students at Taurama continue boycott for ‘patriotism’
By Quintina Naime in Port Moresby
Student leaders at the University of Papua New Guinea’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences stand firm on their...
UPNG lifts suspension of classes, to resume semester on June 13
Ruth Rungala of EM TV News reports on the National Court granting students right to seek a judicial review of UPNG's eviction order last...
Court grants UPNG students go-ahead to seek judicial review over eviction
By Ruth Rungala in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National Court has granted leave to the University of PNG Student Representative Council to apply further...
Lecturers strike as students blockade campus at Papuan university
East New Britain Students Association members from the University of Papua New Guinea are calling on Prime Minster Peter O'Neill to step down and...
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...
PNG students take campaign to provinces – opposition MPs plan protest...
Students from the University of Papua New Guinea - many already having left the campus after this week's eviction order from the administration -...