Tag: Morning Star
Why West Papuans are raising a banned independence flag across Australia, NZ and the Pacific
BACKGROUNDER: By Stefan Armbruster
On 1 December each year, in cities across Australia and New Zealand, a small group of West Papuan immigrants and refugees...
Papuan students accused of ‘treason’ over raising Morning Star flags
Jubi News
The trial of three Papuan “free speech” students accused of treason has resumed at the Jayapura District Court this week.
The defendants — Yoseph...
Wenda slams Jakarta’s ‘hypocrisy’ over support for Palestine, but denying West Papua
Asia Pacific Report
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua has condemned an Indonesian government protest over Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka’s declared support for...
Indonesia protests over Fiji’s Rabuka backing Papuan independence leader
Asia Pacific Report
Indonesia has protested to the Fiji government after Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka met with a Papuan independence leader in a morale boost...
Revelations on the murky fate of flag ‘treason’ prisoners in West Papua
Today marks 1 December 1961 when the West Papuan national flag, the Morning Star was first raised and the date has been honoured across...