/[NOTICE: The AHRC encourages you to send your appeal letters via fax or post to them. Fax numbers and postal addresses of the Indonesian authorities are attached below with this appeal. Thank you.]/ ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION - URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-261-2008 5 Dec

(Abridged) A demonstration took place in Jayapura on 5 December calling for the release of Buchtar Tabuni. Dozens of people came in trucks which stopped not far from police headquarters. The demonstrators then walked to the HQ and called for the release of Buchtar Tabuni. Among those taking part was

Former UK Foreign Office Minister, Rt Hon. John Battle M.P., recognises West Papuans’ “inalienable right to self-determination”. Oxford, England, 8th December 2008 The worldwide campaign for justice and freedom for Indonesian-occupied West Papua received a strong boost today with

by John M. Miller (National Coordinator, ETAN) A recent Wall Street Journal Asia editorial urged its readers to watch the “low-profile” but important issue of the U.S. military relationship with Indonesia. The Journal (“Obama’s Indonesia Test,” Nov. 20) repeated the widely-discredited

Papuan Freedom Struggle Enters House Of Lords Download as MP3 - http://www.thewire.org.au/audio/TWPapua.mp3 Produced by Tom Changarathil On 15th of October this year, The International Parliamentarian’s for West Papua was launched at the House of Lords in Britain. An initiative to bring attent

Cenderawasih Pos, 22 September 2008 Indonesia’s National Human Rights Commission, Komnas HAM, has sent an investigation team to investigate the incident on 9 August which led to the death of Opinus Tabuni. The team is composed of five members, headed by Joseph Adi Prasetyo. The team visited t