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Judges at the Jayapura District Court sentenced Papuan activist and human rights defender Victor Yeimo to eight months imprisonment on 5 May 2023.

Almost three months after West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) members captured New Zealand pilot, Captain Phillip Mark Mehrtens, TPNPB spokesperson Mr Sebby Sambom circulated a press release and new

Indonesian security forces have intensified operations in various conflict areas in West Papua. According to information received, security force members raided villages and set residential houses on fire. The raids reportedly occurred in the conflict hotspots in West Papua, predominantly in the regencies, Puncak, Nduga, and Intan Jaya,

Police officers arbitrarily arrested 54 members of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) and supporters in the city of Jayapura and the neighbouring town of Sentani, Jayapura District, between 8 and 11 April 2023

In early April 2023, three Papuan students were tried under treason charges at the Jayapura Ditrict Court for participating in the peaceful assembly and raising the Morning Star flag at the USTJ campus in Jayapura. Police officers forcefully dispersed a peaceful protest by Papuan university students at the Jayapura University of Science and Technology (USTJ) and arrested fifteen students on 10 November 2022. One detainee was reportedly torture on 8 December during detention.

The West Papua Council of Churches (WPCC) published an open letter to the Indonesian Government and the West Papua National Liberation Army in February 2023.

Judges at the Sorong District Court handed down two more long-term prison sentences in relation to the alleged involvement in the attack against the Kisor Military Post in the Maybrat Regency on 2 September 2021.

On 15 February 2023, judges at the Military Court III-19 in Jayapura have found the four military members, Private Rahmat Amin Sese, Private Risky Oktav Muliawan, Private Robertus Putra Clinsman, and Private Pargo Rumbouw guilty of killing four indigenous Papuans and subsequently mutilating their bodies in the town of Timika on 22 August 2022.

Members of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) captured New Zealand pilot, Captain Phillip Mark Mehrtens, in the Paro District of Nduga Regency, Papua Pegunungan Province, on 7 February 2023.

On 24 January 2023, the panel of judges found Major (Inf) Helmanto Fransiskus Dakhi guilty and sentenced him to lifelong imprisonment.

Two separate trials against six Indonesian army members responsible for killing of four indigenous Papuans in the town of Timika, Papua Tengah Province, on 22 August 2022 continue

The trial against human rights activist and international spokesperson of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), Mr Victor Yeimo, was continued on 12 January 2023.

The Indonesian office of the environmental organisation Greenpeace together with the Institute for Development and Finance (INDEF), launched a new report on deforestation in West Papua.

Police officers arrested ten protesters participating in peaceful commemorations of the 1st December in the cities Sorong, Papua Barat Province, and Ternate, Maluku Utara Province.

The 2022 commemorations of the Hmuan Righs Day in Jayapura, Sentani, and Wamena were accompanied by mass arrests and ill-treatments against protesters.

On 8 December 2022, two intoxicated police officers reportedly tortured three political detainees during detention at the Jayapura police headquarters

A military trial against five members of the Brigif R20/IJK/3 Timika Military Command has been launched at the III-19 Military Court in Jayapura on 12 December 2022.