{"id":52622,"date":"2023-02-15T06:30:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T21:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/14\/indonesian-separatists-release-video-of-nz-pilot-they-took-hostage"},"modified":"2023-02-15T06:30:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T21:30:51","slug":"west-papuan-separatists-release-video-of-new-zealand-pilot-they-took-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52622","title":{"rendered":"West Papuan separatists release video of New Zealand pilot they took hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Mark Mehrtens, a pilot for Susi Air, was abducted by armed wing of the Free Papua Movement<\/p>\n<p>Separatist rebels in Indonesia\u2019s restive Papua province have released photos and videos of a man they say is the pilot from New Zealand they took hostage last week.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip Mark Mehrtens of Christchurch, a pilot for the Indonesian aviation company Susi Air, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/08\/separatists-fighters-in-papua-hold-new-zealand-pilot-hostage\">abducted by independence fighters<\/a> from the West Papua National Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement, who stormed his single-engine plane shortly after it landed on a small runway in Paro, in the remote Nduga district.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/14\/indonesian-separatists-release-video-of-nz-pilot-they-took-hostage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Mark Mehrtens, a pilot for Susi Air, was abducted by armed wing of the Free Papua MovementSeparatist rebels in Indonesia\u2019s restive Papua province have released photos and videos of a man they say is the pilot from New Zealand they took hostage &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,503,156,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indigenous-peoples","category-indonesia","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52623,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52622\/revisions\/52623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}