As Israel Yafai neared the end of his four-year environmental science course at Papua New Guinea’s University of Natural Resources and Environment (UNRE), he envisaged a future as a professional and – given his standing as student representative council (SRC) president – a community leader.
Instead, he has spent more than six months in Kerevat jail, a few kilometres from the university on New Britain island.
Mr Yafai and several fellow students face charges over the unrest that first engulfed the campus last September, after…
