ASIA/INDONESIA Associations write to the UN: investigation into the murder of a Catholic catechist by the military


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Challenge of the law that reorganizes the labor market, inappropriate according to an Indonesian Jesuit Timika (Agenzi Fides) - A group of Indonesian Catholic and lay associations sent a letter to the United Nations to involve the UN Commissions in charge of human rights and extrajudicial executions in the case of the murder of Rufinus Tigau, a Catholic catechist killed by the Indonesian security forces last October 26 in the province of Papua. The young man had gone, unarmed, in the direction of a patrol to ask for explanations about the shootings which were in progress in the village of...