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September 4, 2025
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves presenter/producer A West Papuan activist says the transfer of four political prisoners by Indonesian authorities is a breach of human rights. In April, the men were arrested on charges of treason after requesting peace talks in the city of Sorong in southwest Papua. They were then transferred to Makassar ... <a title="Prisoner transfer sparks new human rights concerns in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/09/04/prisoner-transfer-sparks-new-human-rights-concerns-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Prisoner transfer sparks new human rights concerns in West Papua">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Saige England A New Zealand policeman pushed over an elderly man who was doing nothing but waving a Palestinian flag at a solidarity rally in Ōtautahi yesterday. Yes the man employed to protect the public committed a violent assault. Not a wee shove, a great big push that caused the man to fall ... <a title="Why we need protection from brutality of some thuggish NZ police" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/17/why-we-need-protection-from-brutality-of-some-thuggish-nz-police/" aria-label="Read more about Why we need protection from brutality of some thuggish NZ police">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2025
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent United States immigration and deportation enforcement continues to ramp up, impacting on Marshallese and Micronesians in new and unprecedented ways. The Trump administration’s directive to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest and deport massive numbers of potentially illegal aliens, including those with convictions from decades ... <a title="ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/19/ice-deportation-action-lands-marshallese-micronesians-in-guantanamo-terror-base/" aria-label="Read more about ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2025
Asia Pacific Report Protesters against the Israeli genocide in Gaza and occupied West Bank targeted three business sites accused of being “complicit” in Aotearoa New Zealand today. The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa’s “End Rocket Lab Genocide Complicity” themed protest picketed Rocket Lab’s New Zealand head office in Mt Wellington. Simultaneously, protesters also picketed a site ... <a title="Palestine protesters target NZ businesses ‘complicit’ with Israel’s Gaza genocide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/04/palestine-protesters-target-nz-businesses-complicit-with-israels-gaza-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine protesters target NZ businesses ‘complicit’ with Israel’s Gaza genocide">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2025
Pacific Media Watch In July 1985, Australia’s Pacific territory of Norfolk Island (pop. 2188) became the centre of a real life international spy thriller. Four French agents sailed there on board the Ouvéa, a yacht from Kanaky New Caledonia, after bombing the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, killing Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira. The Rainbow Warrior was ... <a title="Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/03/fallout-spies-on-norfolk-island-sbs-podcast/" aria-label="Read more about Fallout: Spies on Norfolk Island – SBS podcast">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2025
By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Police in Papua New Guinea say the country’s overrun courts and prisons are behind mass breakouts from police custody. Chief Superintendent Clement Dala made the comment after 13 detainees escaped on Tuesday in Simbu Province, including eight who were facing murder charges. Dala said an auxiliary policeman who ... <a title="Papua New Guinea police blame overrun system for prison breakouts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/26/papua-new-guinea-police-blame-overrun-system-for-prison-breakouts/" aria-label="Read more about Papua New Guinea police blame overrun system for prison breakouts">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2025
Asia Pacific Report A leading Middle East analyst has pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s dismissal of the conclusion of his own national intelligence chief, who said in April that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, said in an interview that Tulsi Gabbard, the US Director ... <a title="Analyst dismisses ‘lie by rogue’ Netanyahu over Iran’s nuclear programme" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/21/analyst-dismisses-lie-by-rogue-netanyahu-over-irans-nuclear-programme/" aria-label="Read more about Analyst dismisses ‘lie by rogue’ Netanyahu over Iran’s nuclear programme">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2025
SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England in Ōtautahi and Ava Mulla in Cairo Hope for freedom for Palestinians remains high among a group of trauma-struck New Zealanders in Cairo. In spite of extensive planning, the Global March To Gaza (GMTG) delegation of about 4000 international aid volunteers was thwarted in its mission to walk from Cairo ... <a title="Egyptian crackdown on Gaza blockade busters but Kiwi activists vow to ‘defeat genocide’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/19/egyptian-crackdown-on-gaza-blockade-busters-but-kiwi-activists-vow-to-defeat-genocide/" aria-label="Read more about Egyptian crackdown on Gaza blockade busters but Kiwi activists vow to ‘defeat genocide’">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Further reports of civilian casualties are coming out of West Papua, while clashes between Indonesia’s military and the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement continue. One of the most recent military operations took place in the early morning of May 14 in Sugapa District, Intan Jaya in Central ... <a title="More deaths reported out of Sugapa in West Papua clashes with military" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/11/more-deaths-reported-out-of-sugapa-in-west-papua-clashes-with-military/" aria-label="Read more about More deaths reported out of Sugapa in West Papua clashes with military">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2025
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Three staffers from Papua New Guinea’s peak anti-corruption body are embroiled in a standoff that has brought into question the integrity of the organisation. Police Commissioner David Manning has confirmed that he received a formal complaint. Commissioner Manning said that initial inquiries were underway to inform the “sensitive ... <a title="Internal tensions throw PNG anti-corruption body into crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/05/internal-tensions-throw-png-anti-corruption-body-into-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Internal tensions throw PNG anti-corruption body into crisis">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea has five months remaining to fix its anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) systems or face the severe repercussions of being placed on the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) “grey list”. The FATF has imposed an October 2025 deadline, and the government is scrambling ... <a title="PNG faces deadline for fixing issues with money laundering and terrorist financing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/02/png-faces-deadline-for-fixing-issues-with-money-laundering-and-terrorist-financing/" aria-label="Read more about PNG faces deadline for fixing issues with money laundering and terrorist financing">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2025
Pacific Media Watch A punitive defamation charge filed against one of Samoa’s most experienced and trusted journalists last week has sparked a flurry of criticism over abuse of power and misuse of a law that has long been heavily criticised as outdated. Talamua Online senior journalist Lagi Keresoma, who is also president of the Journalists ... <a title="Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/23/punitive-criminal-libel-charge-against-samoan-journalist-draws-flurry-of-criticism/" aria-label="Read more about Punitive criminal libel charge against Samoan journalist draws flurry of criticism">Read more</a>
