A demonstrator wearing a protective face mask and plastic gloves holds a sign that reads: "Free Mimika Steven Itlay" during a protest demanding Papua's political prisoners to be released without conditions, in front of the Supreme Court building in Jakarta, Indonesia on June 15, 2020. - Reuters
BALIKPAPAN, Indonesia (AFP): A group of Papuan activists was jailed for treason by an Indonesian court Wednesday (June 17) over anti-racism protests last year in a case that sparked fears of a clampdown on free speech.
Unrest erupted across Indonesia's easternmost territory and in other parts of the country in August after the arrest, racial abuse and tear-gassing of dozens of Papuan students in the central city of Surabaya.
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