Indonesia:
EU Parliament should challenge Papua abuses
Human Rights
Watch News Release - January 19, 2014
"The European
Parliament's hearing on Papua should spotlight the serious human rights
challenges and the Indonesian government's needed reforms. Indonesia should
realize that abuses by state security forces are a recipe for instability
and lawlessness." – Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director
Brussels – The
European Parliament's hearing on human rights in Papua in Indonesia is
an important opportunity to raise concerns and press for improvements in
the area's grave human rights situation, Human Rights Watch said today.
The hearing of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights on
West Papua and Papua provinces is scheduled for January 23, 2014 in Brussels.
"The European
Parliament's hearing on Papua should spotlight the serious human rights
challenges and the Indonesian government's needed reforms," said Phelim
Kine, deputy Asia director. "Indonesia should realize that abuses by state
security forces are a recipe for instability and lawlessness."Human Rights
Watch has long urged the Indonesian government to address widespread abuses
in Papua by:
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Allowing international
media, nongovernmental groups, diplomats, and aid agencies access to the
two provinces to report on rights abuses by all sides. By keeping Papua
closed off from the rest of the world, the Indonesian government is fostering
impunity among military forces and resentment among Papuans;
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Permitting access
to Papua and West Papua provinces and issuing standing invitations to visit
for United Nations human rights experts, including the UN special rapporteur
on freedom of expression;
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Investigating the
performance of recent military tribunals in Papua and the failure to bring
those implicated in serious abuses to justice;
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Releasing all political
prisoners in Papua who are being held for the peaceful expression of their
political views, including the activist Filep Karma; and
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Reviewing and amending
all laws in Papua that permit criminal prosecutions for the peaceful exercise
of political expression, association, and assembly, including the regulation
prohibiting the flying of the Papuan Morning Star flag.
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