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Disturbing documentary-drama, The Act of Killing, is to hit UK screens this summer. The film shows local gangsters in Medan, Sumatra re-enacting in vivid and sometimes surreal and sickening detail the killing of alleged communists during the horrific events that followed former President Suharto’s rise to power in Indonesia in 1965.
At the end of March 2013 there were at least 40 political prisoners in West Papuan jails. A few prisoners were released, but political arrests continued in Sarmi, Manokwari and Paniai. Prisoner news plus updates on the Biak explosives trial, the Timika treason and explosives trial, and the Deny Hisage Cs trial.
February Update from Papuans Behind Bars, a new project about political prisoners in West Papua, initated by Papuans civil society groups working together as the Civil Society Coalition to Uphold Law and Human Rights in Papua
Alias Ruby Blade: A Story of Love and Revolution tells the remarkable love story of human rights activist Kirsty Sword and political prisoner Xanana Gusmão. Once an aspiring documentary filmmaker, Kirsty instead became a revolutionary, working in Jakarta for the Timorese resistance.
Papuan church leaders Rev Benny Giay and Socratez Sofyan Yoman deplore the lack of protection provided for indigenous Papuans by Indonesian security forces, and state that the security forces are part of the problem rather than the solution.
January Update from Papuans Behind Bars, a new project about political prisoners in West Papua, initated by Papuans civil society groups working together as the Civil Society Coalition to Uphold Law and Human Rights in Papua.