09/10/2015
JAL
Case No
Country
Mandate(s)
IDN 8/2015
Indonesia
Freedom of
expression;
Freedom of
peaceful assembly
and of association;
Indigenous
peoples; Summary
executions;
Summary of the allegation transmitted
Alleged excessive use of force by Indonesian security forces in Papua Province
resulting in the death of nine individuals, of which seven minors, and injuries to
several others. According to the information received, on 8 December 2014,
Indonesian security forces shot at a group of demonstrators who were protesting
against the ill-treatment of a boy by army personnel in Ipakiye Village, Paniai
District, Papua Province. Mr. Simon Degei, aged 18, and three 17-year-old boys
died as a result and 17 other members of the indigenous community were injured.
On 25 June 2015, a junior high school student was killed and another one injured
when members of the Indonesian security forces shot at a group of youth who were
requesting a monetary fine to passers by on a road in Desa Ugapuga, Kamu Timur
District, Dogiyai Regency, in Papua Province. On 17 July 2015, the Indonesian
National Police killed a 15 year old boy and injured eleven other individuals
following the burning of a mosque in Karabuga, Tolikara Regency, in Papua
Province. On 28 August 2015, members of the Indonesian military forces shot at a
crowd after they had complained to them for having driven too fast past a street
gathering in Timika, Mimika Regency, in Papua Province. Mr. Yulianus Okoare,
aged 18, and Mr. Imanuel Marimau, aged 23, died as a result and four others were
wounded. On 28 September 2015, the police killed a 17 year old boy and wounded
another in GorongGorong, Timika, after the two students had been reported to the
police as troublemakers and their fathers had been accused of being members of
the Free West Papua Movement.
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A/HRC/31/79
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