Indonesia: Prisoners of conscience from Papua must be urgently released amid COVID-19
(WorldNews Indonesia)

Amnesty Indonesia and Amnesty Australia welcome the decision of Indonesian authorities to release 30,000 prisoners to minimise the risk of infection with COVID-19. Overcrowding and unsanitary facilities have been posing a health threat to Indonesia´s prison population of more than 250.000 prisoners. Political activists, human rights defenders, and others imprisoned solely for peacefully exercising their rights - must be immediately and unconditionally released While the move is welcomed, it must be extended to all prisoners of conscience. Hundreds of people are behind bars for simply exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. Now they are also faced with an...