New Caledonia independence leader faces pre-trial deten

4 months ago

A pro-independence leader in French-colonised New Caledonia was transferred to a prison facility in France to await trial on charges relating to two weeks of unrest in May that left nine people dead, the public prosecutor in the territory said. Christian Tein, an Indigenous Kanak leader of the pro-independence party known as The Field Action Coordination Unit, was flown to mainland