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Amnesty International Australia and Indonesian human rights lawyer Veronica Koman urge the Australian government to raise the human rights situation in West Papua during bilateral talks with Indonesian President Joko Widodo this week. Fifty-six indigenous West Papuans and one Jakarta-based Indonesian are currently held behind bars for treason in seven cities across Indonesia. They are …
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Indonesian authorities are failing to protect the transgender women who were appallingly ill-treated and humiliated by police in North Aceh on January 27, some of whom have since had to go into hiding due to fears for their safety, Amnesty International said today. Amnesty International interviewed some of the victims in a location near Aceh, …
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Amnesty International is deeply concerned about reports that the Indonesian security forces are disrupting public events and closed-door discussions about the Communist purge of 1965, in which 500,000 to one million people were unlawfully killed and hundreds of thousands held without trial According to local human rights organisations, there have been at least 39 cases …
