Tag: torture
Australian group warns of new ‘arrests, torture’ in Papuan crackdown
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian solidarity group for West Papua today warned of a fresh “heavy handed” Indonesian crackdown on Papuan villagers with more “arrests...
West Papuan wounds of suffering – diplomatic pressure on Indonesia needed urgently
COMMENTARY: By Ronny Kareni
Recent videos depicting the barbaric torture of an indigenous Papuan man by Indonesian soldiers have opened the wounds of West Papua’s...
Caitlin Johnstone: Israel accused of torturing UN workers to obtain false testimony about UNRWA
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
A recent UNRWA document says its staff report having been tortured while detained by Israeli forces, who pressed them to provide...
Palestinians demand international inquiry after mass grave found in Gaza
One of the Israeli atrocity stories that local media in Aotearoa New Zealand have missed . . . or ignored. Bodies of Palestinian detainees...
Indonesian police raid church office, home in Nduga – arrest six, torture 12
Asia Pacific Report
Members of Indonesia’s Nduga District Police and the Damai Cartenz Police Task Force have raided a residential house and the local head...
Archive: Tortured Fiji academic tells of his scars
From Café Pacific 1990 archives: The abduction and torture of a scientist by soldiers has exposed a sinister side to the current ruling regime...