23 arrested in Wamena<\/strong>
\nOn December 8, 23 people in Wamena were arrested for several hours when they were distributing leaflets for people to join the Human Rights Day rally.<\/p>\nOn December 10, forced dispersals and mass arrests took place in Wamena and Jayapura.<\/p>\n
In Jayapura, 56 people were arrested and at least 16 people were known to be injured during forced dispersals in multiple locations.<\/p>\n
In Wamena, 37 people were arrested and at least one person was injured when the multiple rallies were forcibly dispersed.<\/p>\n
Also on December 10, a rally in Sorong was forcibly dispersed, and the protest in Manokwari was blocked by police.<\/p>\n
Most of the protesters were members of the West Papua National Committee (Komite Nasional Papua Barat \u2013 KNPB), a peaceful grassroots organisation campaigning for the right to self-determination.<\/p>\n
Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which Indonesia has ratified through Law No. 12\/2005, explicitly guarantees the right of any person to hold opinions without interference.<\/p>\n
Freedom of peaceful assembly is also guaranteed under Article 21 of the ICCPR.<\/p>\n
Amnesty International does not take any position regarding political status within Indonesia, including calls for independence.<\/p>\n
However, the organisation believes that the right to freedom of expression includes the right to peacefully advocate for independence referenda, or other political positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amnesty International Amnesty International Indonesia and Amnesty International Australia have condemned the repression used against the people in West Papua when they were commemorating Human Rights Day yesterday \u2014 December 10, which marks the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Indonesian authorities made 116 arrests and injured at least 17 people during multiple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1168,48738,37051,789,432,433,5,365,17819,6,1544,55237,7,207,1192,118,12,431,1278,14,417,15,1743,1,34180,46409,19,922,299],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916329"}],"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=916329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916391,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916329\/revisions\/916391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}