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| Subject: Indonesia must free Papuans. NOW! Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:43 am | |
| RIGHTS activists rallied on Tuesday outside the Indonesian embassy here demanding the immediate release of two Papuan activists on the fifth anniversary of their arrest for raising a separatist flag.
Filep Karma and Yusak Pakage were detained in late 2004 in the Papuan capital of Jayapura for displaying the Morning Star flag as part of a ceremony commemorating the 1962 declaration of Papuan independence. They were sentenced in 2005 to 15 and 10 years, respectively.
More than 170 people are currently imprisoned in Indonesia for peacefully promoting separatism in Indonesia...
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