Papua New Guinea repeals death penalty 30 years after reintroduction

Justice minister says state lacks ability to humanely execute those convicted, while PM says PNG is a ‘Christian nation’

Offences such as treason, piracy, murder – including sorcery related violence – and aggravated rape will now be punishable by life imprisonment without parole or parole after 30 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/papua-new-guinea-repeals-death-penalty-30-years-after-reintroduction

PNG woman tortured and killed in horrifying video over ‘sorcery’

June 4, 2021

https://asiapacificreport.nz/2021/06/04/png-woman-tortured-and-killed-in-horrifying-video-over-sorcery/

Widespread lynching of ‘witches’ in Papua New Guinea

January 4, 2019

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/widespread-lynching-of-witches-in-papua-new-guinea/

Why Is Papua New Guinea Still Hunting Witches?

A six-year-old girl tortured for ‘witchcraft’ sparks international outrage.

January 17, 2018

https://thediplomat.com/2018/01/why-is-papua-new-guinea-still-hunting-witches/

The gruesome fate of “witches” in Papua New Guinea

The law criminalising sorcery was only repealed in 2013

Ms Kakebeeke says accused sorcerers used to be dispatched quietly, at night. Now they are subjected to “public torture spectacles—it has become a mass movement”.

https://www.economist.com/asia/2017/07/13/the-gruesome-fate-of-witches-in-papua-new-guinea

horrific video has emerged showing four young women accused of witchcraft being tortured in a village in Papua New Guinea.

October 23, 2015

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/papua-new-guinea-witches-stripped-naked-tortured-horrific-video-1525394

Papua New Guinea’s Tragic Witch-Hunts

Every year, dozens of men, women and children are brutally murdered on accusations of witchcraft or sorcery.

October 21, 2014

https://thediplomat.com/2014/10/papua-new-guineas-tragic-witch-hunts/

Accused witch burned alive in Papua New Guinea as crowd, including kids, watch

February 8, 2013

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/accused-witch-burned-alive-in-papua-new-guinea-as-crowd-including-kids-watch/

A 'CANNIBAL cult' in Papua New Guinea has been accused of murdering seven witch doctors, eating their brains and making soup from their penises.

July 13, 2012

https://www.news.com.au/world/papua-new-guinea-cannibal-cult-charged-with-killing-and-eating-witch-doctors/news-story/925b2feea62dbb4661e922ecf9144f73

Witch doctors, known as Glass Marys, make a living identifying so-called witches, while those they accuse become outcasts - at best.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-44333447