Biak – Some 300 people in Biak Numfor district in Indonesia's Papua province staged a peaceful rally at the legislative council building on Tuesday to press for the discharge of police officers for beating a local official last June 9.

Rally coordinator, Marinus Baab, asked the legislative council, along with local security authorities, to discharge 1st Brig Samuel Ohoi Ulun and his fellows, suspected of beating Biak Kota subdistrict head, Johanes Sopacau, last June 9.

Baab said it is for the umpteenth time that members of the police's mobile brigade have tortured local officials.