On 3 February 2022, police officers arrested and tortured Papuan student Mr Amzal Yohame during a peaceful protest against the government’s plan to establish new provinces in West Papua. Officers dragged him away from the crowd and into a police car. According to Mr Yohame, police officers punched him in the face and the ribs and kicked him multiple times to the waist on the way to the police station. At the station, officers forced him to take off his clothes. An officer broke his bracelet with the Morning Star emblem. The police released him after two-and-a-half hours.
Detailed Case Data
name of the location: Manokwari City, Manokwari Polsek Amban (-0.8381053951259305, 134.06963471749194) administrative region: Indonesia, Papua Barat Province, Manokwari Regency, West Manokwari District, Amban
total number of victims: one
period of incident: 3.2.2022
perpetrator: police
perpetrator details:
Issues: freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, arbitrary detention, torture
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Further HRM News: https://humanrightsmonitor.org/news/series-of-arrests-and-torture-of-west-papua-10-arrested-2-tortured/
| Number | Name, Details | Gender | Age | Group Affiliation | Violations |
| 1 | Amzal Yohame, student | male | unknown | activist | arbitrary detention, torture, freedom of assembly, freedom of expression |
