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New Caledonia's pro-independence alliance names jailed activist as leader

An alliance of parties seeking independence for New Caledonia has nominated Christian Tein as chief of the FLNKS opposition party, although currently jailed in France over a wave of deadly rioting. © AFP

An alliance of pro-independence parties in New Caledonia has nominated the imprisoned activist Christian Tein as head of the prominent opposition FLNKS group. Tein is currently being detained in France over a wave of deadly rioting in the French Pacific territory.

Christian Tein – who considers himself a "political prisoner" – was one of seven pro-independence activists transferred to mainland France in June in a move that sparked renewed violence that has raged across the archipelago and left 11 people dead.

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