Report by the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Theo van Boven


Papua New Guinea

1284. By letter dated 11 August 2004, the Special Rapporteur notified the Government that he had received allegations concerning Ekar Keapu, a reporter for the newspaper The National. On 28 November 2003 at 10.30 a.m. he was covering a confrontation between the police and a group of vendors outside the Gordon Market in Port Moresby. Ekar Keapu was confronted by a policeman who ordered him not to take any photographs and later smashed the camera on the ground. Another policeman approached from behind and punched him on the side of the face. A third policeman threatened him with a steel rod.

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