Five jailed over West Papua independence push | theage.com.au

Edison Waromi. Photo: Polaris

FIVE activists fighting for an independent West Papua will immediately appeal their conviction and imprisonment on treason charges, handed down yesterday.
The men, including Forkorus Yaboisembut, the man declared “president of the Federal Republic of West Papua” by representatives of the district’s 200-plus tribes last October, were jailed yesterday for three years by Jayapura district court judge Jack Johanis Oktavianus.
The three year sentence was lighter than the maximum sentence of life imprisonment for the charge of “makar” (translated as treason or subversion).
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