Intending to visit activists arrested for treason, Fr Pius Cornelius Manu, a priest in Papua’s Merauke Archdiocese, was shouted at by police, in-terrogated and had his bag searched. “I was shocked because I had often visited, arrested activists. Previously, I was not treated that way because many policemen knew me,” said the priest, talking about an incident last November when he went to visit 55 Papuans at Merauke district police station.
Justice Bhuyan Calls for Protection of Dissent and Personal Liberty
Supreme Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan has expressed concern over the growing trend of treating peaceful dissent and ordinary actions as criminal offences. Speaking at a
