AWPA Calls on US Government to Investigate Freeport Killing

Press Release: The Australia West Papua Association

The Australia West Papua Association (Sydney)
AWPA has written to the US Ambassador in Canberra (letter below) asking that the US Government investigate the killing of Petrus Ayamiseba to see if Freeport management is using the security forces and its own security staff to intimidate workers to return to work. AWPA believes industrial action should be dealt bilaterally, between the company and workers and not involving the security forces. There have been numerous incidents of human rights abuses reported around the Freeport mine and we urge the US Government to investigate these abuses to see if Freeport is complicit in any way.

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