Christmas & Jakob

He remains optimistic, his morale and health are fine, but he is concerned about people persecuted by Indonesia...

Investigators in Jayapura (chief inspector: Lintong Simanjuntak) prevent his lawyer and the Polish consul from seeing and contacting him. 

The transfer to Wamena for political reasons ( to conduct a propaganda trial in the sensitive area in the mountainous centre of Papua, without roads) and to separate it from its lawyers and protectors, consuls etc.... but it is at least protected from any tsunami:-) 

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The trial in Papua of a  resident of the swiss Canton of Vaud postponed to January


The trial of a Pole residing in Switzerland who faces up to 20 years in prison if found guilty of links with Papuan separatists has been postponed to January, an Indonesian official said Monday. There was no translator.

The suspect was arrested in Wamena and charged in August after meeting with independence rebels in Indonesia's Papua province. The prosecution believes that it has supported the independence fighters by helping them to make their case known. This subject is very sensitive in Papua, the scene of sporadic clashes between independence rebels and the army.

The trial of the man who lives near Lausanne, was supposed to start on Monday but was postponed to 8 January. "It was rejected because we do not have an Indonesian-French translator," said a spokesman for the city prosecutor, Ricarda Arsenius, citing logistical difficulties.

Overthrow the government

According to an indictment seen by the AFP, the suspect would face four charges, including participation in a plot to overthrow the government. The prosecutor's office reports that documents and videos in support of the independence struggle were found in the possession of the Pole who allegedly met with leaders of the Free Papua Movement (OPM).

He is also suspected of having discussed the possibility of bringing weapons from Poland for rebels, according to the prosecutor's office.

The police had previously reported that they had confiscated more than 130 rounds of ammunition from the suspect and three co-accused, but this was not mentioned in the indictment.

"Stories or fake news"

The Pole denied any wrongdoing, according to his lawyer. In a letter published in Le Temps, he complained about his conditions of detention and claimed to be innocent. "They tell stories about ammunition, but I have not seen or possessed it. I was just taking a walk near the mountain town of Wamena. They are trying to accuse me of attempted coup d'état, but all I did was meet with the unarmed indigenous Papuans,' he wrote.

The Indonesian province of Papua is located in the west of the island of New Guinea, the other half of which is shared by Papua New Guinea, a former independent Australian colony.

It experienced an escalation of violence with the execution in early December by separatists of at least 16 Indonesian workers working for a public company on an infrastructure site. An armed group, the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB), claimed responsibility for the attack./ATS

https://www.rfj.ch/rfj/Actualite/Monde/Le-proces-en-Papouasie-d-un-resident-vaudois-repousse-en-janvier.html

Indonesia appears to use chemical weapons, including white phosphorus, against Papua.


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