Fernando de Araújo, also known as Lasama (26 February 1963 – 2 June 2015) was an East Timorese activist and politician.

There he founded the National Resistance of East Timorese Students (Portuguese: Resistência Nacional dos Estudantes de Timor-Leste (RENETIL)).

Following the Santa Cruz massacre in 1991, Araújo was arrested for "subversion against the state" after completing his first year of study.

In January 1992, an Indonesian court sentenced him to nine years in prison on subversion charges, with the judge saying he was guilty of "disgracing the nation [Indonesia] in the eyes of the international community".

[2] He was released from Cipinang Penitentiary Institution early after pressure from Indonesian human rights activists.

Lasama de Araújo was the Democratic Party's candidate in the April 2007 presidential election.

[5] In the June 2007 parliamentary election, Araújo won a seat as the first name on the Democratic Party's candidate list.

[9] While in prison he met his wife, Jacqueline "Joy" Aquino Siapno, a Filipino academic who was working for Amnesty International.