Indonesia - Two French journalists held for past five days in Indonesian province of Papua

Reporters without borders

Police say they are suspected of promoting instability in the region Reporters Without Borders deplores the detention of French journalists Thomas Dandois and Valentine Bourrat in the Indonesian province of Papua (on the island of New Guinea) since 6 August and calls on the local authorities to release them at once. Employed by Memento, a production company, they were doing a report on the Indonesian half of New Guinea for the Franco-German TV channel Arte. Officially, they are being held (...)

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