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Foreign Minister Winston Peters is pleased to announce that New Zealand pilot, Phillip Mehrtens, taken hostage in Papua, Indonesia, is now safe.   Mr Mehrtens was taken while working as a pilot at a ...

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New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been freed more than 19 months after being kidnapped by armed separatists in Indonesia's Papua, authorities said on Saturday. Mehrtens was freed and picked up by ...

Phillip Mehrtens was captured by separatist rebels after they stormed his plane on 7 February last year. The group had taken ...

The New Zealand pilot who was held hostage for over a year in the restive Papua region was freed by separatist rebels, ...

The contentious work is a permanent public artwork in the CBD of Wollongong, a coastal city about 90km south of Sydney.

The task force picked up Mehrtens in a village of Nduga district this morning, according to security officers.