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By Harsha Walia - July 9, 2010

Over the weekend, there were 1090 arrests, of whom 113 were released without charges on the street, 714 were held for breach of the peace and released within 72 hours, and 263 released with pending charges...Around 20 people still remain in custody. While the exact numbers and charges of some of those still being held in detention are unclear at this time, we know that 17 people are facing a variety of trumped up and politically-motivated allegations including conspiracy.

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Paul Jay is an experienced journalist and newscaster whose reputation, in some circles, precedes him. He's the founder, CEO and visionary behind the Real News Network, a project that gets out lots of independent journalism, with talented journalists filing stories from Palestine to Toronto.

As protests continue to spread throughout the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, where indigenous land rights have been suspended, an unprecedented mass mobilization has begun in the west, in the Indonesian-occupied state of West Papua.