July 12, 2023
President Wenda: Indonesia increases repression as West Papua prepares for MSG full membership
As people across West Papua mobilise in favour of the ULMWP gaining full membership of...
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March 29, 2023
President Wenda: Indonesia makes humanitarianism illegal for West Papuans
Today, Indonesia has shown that even humanitarianism is illegal in West Papua. Twenty West Papuans...
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October 17, 2022
Urgent Notice: Buchtar Tabuni and two ULMWP Ministers arrested by Indonesian Police
Indonesian Police have arrested Buchtar Tabuni, one of West Papua’s most important liberation leaders, along...
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September 9, 2022
Interim President: Papuaphobia behind Indonesia’s arrest of Eltinus Omaleng
Only a week after four indigenous West Papuans were murdered and mutilated in Mimika by...
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June 1, 2022
Interim President: Indonesia must release political prisoners, stop arresting protestors
Indonesia must immediately release all West Papuan political prisoners, including Victor Yeimo and the eight...
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May 10, 2022
Interim President Wenda: Release six protestors arrested in Jayapura
Indonesian police have arrested six West Papuans at a peaceful rally in Jayapura, where they...
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March 24, 2022
Interim President Wenda: Immediately release Buchtar Tabuni and Bazoka Logo
Indonesian police have arrested Buchtar Tabuni and Bazoka Logo, two of our most prominent liberation...
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December 7, 2021
Interim President: Immediately release eight peaceful student demonstrators
On December 1, our national day, eight West Papuan students were arrested by Indonesian police...
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August 17, 2021
Interim President Wenda: Victor Yeimo must be immediately released
Victor Yeimo, the Spokesperson for the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) must be immediately and...
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June 2, 2021
Interim President: Internet access blocked as arrests of liberation leaders begin
Indonesia has cut off the internet in West Papua to conceal its crack-down on the...
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March 22, 2021
Press Release: Spanish Senate calls for UN High Commissioner to be allowed into West Papua as arrests made
The Spanish Senate has called for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to be...
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January 18, 2021
West Papua in 2021: arrests, abductions and plans for ethnic cleansing
Following the announcement of a Provisional Government of West Papua and rejection of Jakarta’s ‘Special...
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January 7, 2021
President Wenda’s New Year’s Message: Year begins with renewed Indonesian repression
The ULMWP Provisional Government would like to offer its heartfelt new year’s wishes to all...
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December 10, 2020
Interim President Wenda: Indonesian Government greets UN Human Rights Day with military operations and arrests
Today, on UN Human Rights Day, I am calling on the Indonesian government to withdraw...
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April 15, 2020
During the coronavirus pandemic, West Papuan people continue to be massacred in silence by the Indonesian military
As Chairman of the ULMWP, it breaks my heart to learn of yet more killings...
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August 30, 2019
URGENT ALERT: United Nations intervention needed before Santa Cruz like massacre takes place in West Papua
The people of West Papua need urgent international attention. I am calling on all the...
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October 9, 2018
International Coalition for West Papua, 2018 Third Quarter report
Published on Monday, 08 October 2018 on www.humanrightspapua.org The third quarter of 2018 was characterized...
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September 21, 2018
West Papuans in more danger from Indonesian Security Forces, ahead of UN General Assembly
Statement from Benny Wenda, Chairman of ULMWP Ahead of next week’s 73rd session of the United...
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September 11, 2018
Mass arrests are bullying tactics – Indonesia’s position over West Papua is fraudulent
11th September 2018 From 3rd to 8th September, 104 West Papuan people were arrested by...
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