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Scores of West Papuan activists arrested in Jayapura

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Radio New Zealand International - November 19, 2018

Indonesian police have reportedly arrested more than a hundred members of the West Papua National Committee, or KNPB, in Jayapura.

The KNPB said 104 of its members were taken in to custody after police searched a student dormitory in the Papua provincial capital.

A discussion to mark the tenth anniversary of the pro-independence organisation's inception had been about to take place.

The KNPB said the executive director the United Liberation Movement for West Papua Markus Haluk was also arrested.

Source: https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/376307/scores-of-west-papuan-activists-arrested-in-jayapura

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