Free Speech Restrictions
Colonization depends on control of information,
Colonization depends on other nations becoming indifferent.
- 5 September 1963
- Jakarta, Indonesia, Sept. 5 (Reuter)
- West Irian (former Netherland New Guinea) has been declared a
"quarantine territory" and visitors to the province must have permission
from Foreign Minister Subandrio, who is also Minister for West Irian Affairs,
the Government said. No reason was given for the measure.
- 2000 - 2005
- United States
Dept. of State human rights reports.
- 2nd December 2000
- Veteran Swiss
journalist Oswald Iten was arrested by police in Jayapura,
the capital of Irian Jaya (also known as West Papua),
after he took pictures of an independence demonstration staged by Papuan activists.
Iten, a correspondent for the business newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung, was detained for 11 days in dangerous and miserable conditions,
threatened with prosecution for violating visa restrictions, and finally deported.
- 17 February 2006
- International Federation of Journalists
concerned that barring foreign media from West Papua is an attempt to conceal
human rights abuses
- 14 February 2008
- US letter to United Nations
- 25 March 2009
- Dutch journalists detained in Papua province
Four Dutch journalists, among them NRC Handelsblad's correspondent Elske Schouten were detained on Tuesday while covering a protest in the Indonesian province of Papua.
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