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September 11, 2021
By Susan Price in Sydney West Papua activists have called on the Australian government to raise concerns about the Indonesian military’s ongoing human rights abuses in West Papua, when they met with their Indonesian counterparts this week. Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Peter Dutton are attending the seventh Indonesia-Australia Foreign and Defence Ministers ... <a title="Activists call on Canberra to protest over human rights abuses in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/11/activists-call-on-canberra-to-protest-over-human-rights-abuses-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Activists call on Canberra to protest over human rights abuses in Papua">Read more</a>
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September 9, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk France has declared a health emergency in New Caledonia after covid-19 was detected in the community, RNZ Pacific reports. The state of emergency was decreed by the French Prime Minister Jean Castex, effective immediately. The decree, which is valid for a month, allows the authorities to impose restrictions, such as curfews ... <a title="France declares covid-19 emergency in New Caledonia as cases surge to 66" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/09/france-declares-covid-19-emergency-in-new-caledonia-as-cases-surge-to-66/" aria-label="Read more about France declares covid-19 emergency in New Caledonia as cases surge to 66">Read more</a>
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September 9, 2021
In this week's podcast, Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss: three areas that have been relied on to protect New Zealanders from terror-styled attacks; legal measures designed to protect communities from danger and even protect individuals from themselves and why they failed.
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September 8, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Indonesian authorities have been accused of adopting a strategy of deploying military force to drive thousands of Papuans from their homes to make way for powerful business interests. The accusation comes from the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) in a statement responding to news that about 2400 internal refugees ... <a title="Indonesia accused of forcing mass flights of Papuans ‘for business’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/08/indonesia-accused-of-forcing-mass-flights-of-papuans-for-business/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia accused of forcing mass flights of Papuans ‘for business’">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk In a seven-minute social media broadcast, President Duwa Lashi La has declared it is time to stop the military regime’s ongoing torture, detention, jailing and murder of civilians opposed to the military coup seven months ago. And he added that it is vital to halt the regime’s dismantling of the country’s ... <a title="Burma’s National Unity Government ‘declares war’ on military regime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/08/burmas-national-unity-government-declares-war-on-military-regime/" aria-label="Read more about Burma’s National Unity Government ‘declares war’ on military regime">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Fiji celebrated Constitution Day today virtually due to the ongoing civid-19 pandemic crisis, but many see the day as a hollow event not worth celebrating. The national holiday marks the eighth year that the adoption of the controversial and contested 2013 Constitution by the Bainimarama government has been observed. Among the ... <a title="Fiji’s Constitution Day? Nothing but a ‘national joke’, says Prasad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/08/fijis-constitution-day-nothing-but-a-national-joke-says-prasad/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Constitution Day? Nothing but a ‘national joke’, says Prasad">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2021
By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News reporter New Zealand’s Department of Corrections has revealed more details about the LynnMall terrorist’s violent behaviour while he was remanded in prison. Thirty-two-year-old Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen was shot dead by police after stabbing six people inside Countdown LynnMall in West Auckland. He had spent almost three years on remand ... <a title="NZ Corrections found attacker ‘increasingly hostile and abusive’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/nz-corrections-found-attacker-increasingly-hostile-and-abusive/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Corrections found attacker ‘increasingly hostile and abusive’">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Indonesian police have arrested two suspects in connection with an attack on the Kisor military post which killed four soldiers late last week, reports Antara news agency from Sorong. “The suspects have admitted their involvement,” claimed the commander of the XVIII/Kasuari Regional Military Command, Major General I Nyoman Castiasa, after paying ... <a title="Indonesian military say two Papuan rebels arrested over Kisor post attack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/indonesian-military-say-two-papuan-rebels-arrested-over-kisor-post-attack/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military say two Papuan rebels arrested over Kisor post attack">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2021
By Katie Todd, RNZ News reporter An Australian criminologist who deemed the New Zealand shopping mall attacker “low risk” in 2018 believes there were missed opportunities to steer him away from violent extremism. Ahamed Samsudeen was described as a high risk to the community when he was sentenced in July for possessing Islamic State propaganda ... <a title="Missed opportunities to deradicalise attacker in NZ tragedy, says criminologist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/missed-opportunities-to-deradicalise-attacker-in-nz-tragedy-says-criminologist/" aria-label="Read more about Missed opportunities to deradicalise attacker in NZ tragedy, says criminologist">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2021
RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says an attack at Auckland’s New Lynn Countdown supermarket today was a terrorist attack carried out by a violent extremist. The prime minister and Police Commissioner Andrew Coster addressed media after the man was shot dead at a west Auckland mall this afternoon. It is understood six ... <a title="NZ mall stabbings a terrorist attack by ‘lone wolf’, says PM Ardern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/03/nz-mall-stabbings-a-terrorist-attack-by-lone-wolf-says-pm-ardern/" aria-label="Read more about NZ mall stabbings a terrorist attack by ‘lone wolf’, says PM Ardern">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2021
By Assumpta Buchanan in Honiara A high school student is one of three people — including his two brothers — who has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for breaching a Solomon Islands trial covid-19 lockdown late last month. The 18-year-old was sentenced by a magistrates court on Wednesday with his older brothers after ... <a title="Honiara court jails high school student, 18, for ‘lockdown’ breach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/03/honiara-court-jails-high-school-student-18-for-lockdown-breach/" aria-label="Read more about Honiara court jails high school student, 18, for ‘lockdown’ breach">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2021
By Hengky Yeimo in Jayapura Papuan activist Victor Yeimo has been receiving medical treatment in hospital following a police crackdown on a protest in the provincial capital Jayapura demanding that he be released from detention to be treated for illness. Hundreds of protesters had gathered at the Papua chief public prosecutor’s office on Monday to ... <a title="Medical treatment for Victor Yeimo after police break up Papua protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/03/medical-treatment-for-victor-yeimo-after-police-break-up-papua-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Medical treatment for Victor Yeimo after police break up Papua protest">Read more</a>
