Rather than sharing Christmas with his family, West
Papuan political prisoner Yanto Awerkion will be spending Christmas day in a
prison cell in West Papua –
all for signing a petition….
In May
2017, the Indonesian military stormed a peaceful West Papuan prayer gathering
meeting and arrested Yanto Awerkion for collecting signatures for the West
Papuan people’s petition calling for an internationally supervised vote on West
Papuan self-determination (an independence referendum).
Since then he
has been held for over 6 months without charge, unable to see his wife and
baby.
His trial
date is set for the 9th January so we only have a few weeks to
raise funds to help free Yanto.
Support
the Free West Papua Campaign to help free Yanto.