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Rally outside Prime Minister Rudd's Sydney office
The Australia West Papua Association (Sydney)
Media release 10 March 2010
Rally outside Prime Minister Rudd's Sydney office 12.30pm Wednesday 10 March. 70 Phillip St City
A number of organisations will rally outside Prime Minister Rudd's Sydney office including the Refugee Action Coalition which is calling on Kevin Rudd to offer the two hundred and fifty Tamil refugees camped on their boat at the Indonesian port of Merak, resettlement, as he did the Tamil refugees who were on the Oceanic Viking.
The Australia West Papua Association will be calling on Kevin Rudd to raise the human rights situation in West Papua with the Indonesian President.
Joe Collins
of AWPA said "we are also calling on the Prime Minister
to urge the Indonesian President to,
release all West
Papuan political prisoners arrested for simply taking part
in peaceful rallies which is their democratic
right
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