A new video has emerged of a former New Zealand Jetstar pilot who has been held captive for a year by a group of armed rebels in West Papua.
The capture is being used as a negotiating tool for an independence movement, with rebels conveying a message that the man, Phillip Mehrtens, is safe and will, at some stage, be freed, following an earlier video from mid-2023 that suggested he had been given two months to live by his captors.
