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ABC News
6 days ago
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Posting sorcery killings online to be made crime in PNG
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape says witnesses to so-called sorcery killings will soon be prosecuted alongside perpetrators, as well as those who post images of the crimes on social media. The pledge to implement tougher penalties follows the murder of a woman in Hela province in the country's highlands last week. The 45 year old woman was tortured and shot after being accused of using witchcraft to kill her husband and a video of her killing was posted online. In a statement Mr Marape welcomed the arrest of eight men but said recurring incidents of sorcery accusation-related violence are a source of national shame and must end.
ABC News
7 days ago
- Politics
- ABC News
Australian police to be embedded in Fiji's Police Force under new measures
On the program today Australian Federal Police will be embedded in Fiji's Police Force as part of a new raft of measures to strengthen the Vuvale Partnership between the two countries. A historic chiefly installation is gets underway in the Lau islands in Fiji. Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape says witnesses to so-called sorcery killings will soon be prosecuted alongside perpetrators. Nuclear radiation survivors in Guam are left heartbroken after being left out of a compensation act under Donald Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill." Monolithic statues from the remote Polynesian island of Rapa Nui pop up in museums and private collections. And Australia's Victorian Government grants cultural exemptions for the use of machetes.
