‘Intention of separating’<\/strong>
\nThe verdict read “the defendants already have the intention of separating Papua and West Papua from the territory of Indonesia. The defendants have committed the beginning of treason as stipulated in Article 87 of the Criminal Code”.<\/p>\nAfter the trial, the defendant’s lawyer Emanuel Gobay told Jubi<\/i> “we firmly reject” the court’s verdict of treason.<\/p>\n
During the trial Gobay said no expert witnesses had been presented to explain their perspectives on the charges.<\/p>\n
According to Gobay, the conclusions drawn by the panel of judges seemed subjective because there was no information from expert witnesses.<\/p>\n
“We question the basis on which the panel of judges concluded the treason. It is as if the panel of judges acted as experts, interpreting and concluding themselves without relying on expert testimony,” Gobay said.<\/p>\n
This article is republished under a community partnership agreement with RNZ.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ Pacific Seven people have been found guilty of \u201ctreason\u201d after raising the banned Morning Star flag in West Papua, a Melanesian region of Indonesia. In the Jayapura District Court this week, the seven were each jailed for 10 months and fined. The flag is considered a symbol of the West Papua struggle for independence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,412,6,356,7,207,34721,297,39159,12,13,14,368,417,26089,34318,1,19,20,299],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785193,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785152\/revisions\/785193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}