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West Papuan refugee threatened by Interpol arrest
- SOURCE: New InternationalistNovember 29 2011
‘Benny Wenda has travelled half way around the world to escape persecution but he continues to be threatened from afar for by Indonesia,’ says Jago Russell, chief executive of Fair Trials International. ‘Interpol must remove the politically-motivated red notice against Benny and improve its accountability mechanisms so that it can live up to its stated commitment to political neutrality and human rights.’
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