Indonesia: Journalists Under Assault
(WorldNews Indonesia)

(Jakarta, April 26, 2017) - The Indonesian government should adopt measures to ensure that state security forces who physically attack journalists are suspended and appropriately prosecuted, Human Rights Watch said today. New data and case research shows a disturbing increase in assaults on journalists in the past two years. Expand A police officer kicks photographer Ikshan Arham of the Rakyat Sulsel newspaper during a student protest at Makassar State University on November 13, 2014. Police allegedly assaulted 10 journalists that day, but no officers have been prosecuted for those abuses. © 2014 Hasrul Said/Radar Makassar Irina Bokova, the director general of the United Nations Educational,...