カテゴリー: Christchurch shooting
Prime minister says 2020 police statistics have only reinforced government’s commitment to crackdown An increase in charges over gun crime in New Zealand – despite sweeping reforms introduced after the Christchurch mosque attacks in 2019 – has shown th…
The government’s proposal on criminalising the streaming of offensive content is open to misuse and could lead to unnecessary harassmentTwo years on from the horrific mass murders at Al-Noor and Linwood mosques in Christchurch, we know the grief is fre…
History shows that granting further powers to state bodies generally hurts minorities more than othersLast year’s report into the Christchurch mosque attacks was met with scepticism and disappointment from many in the Muslim community, and understandab…
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern pledges to fight racism as she joins around 1,000 people to mark the second anniversary of the mosque attacksThe 51 worshippers murdered in the Christchurch mosque attacks almost two years ago by a white supremacist have b…
Aya Al-Umari desperately misses her brother Hussein, who was killed in the 2019 massacre, with 50 othersA few months after the Christchurch mosque attacks, Aya Al-Umari went on a pilgrimage to Mecca, and from there to Abu Dhabi, where she and her broth…
The 16-year-old is the first person in the country to be detained for being ‘inspired by far-right extremist ideology’A 16-year-old who was arrested in Singapore for allegedly planning a terror attack on two mosques was inspired by the Australian who c…
The report into the mosque attacks basically told those affected to fend for themselves – the government must support usIn New Zealand, strong women leaders are regularly referred to as wāhine toa. This is not a term used lightly, but rather a title gi…
The report into the mosque attacks basically told those affected to fend for themselves – the government must support usIn New Zealand, strong women leaders are regularly referred to as wāhine toa. This is not a term used lightly, but rather a title gi…
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern apologises for police and security failings but says they would not have stopped the attackNew Zealand’s security agencies were “almost exclusively” focused on the threat from Islamist terrorism at the time of …
New Zealand security forces should have focused more on threat of rightwing terrorism, royal commission toldNew Zealand’s Islamic community has told the Christchurch massacre inquiry that it knew it was “vulnerable” to a terror attack, and that securit…
More than 90 people – the wounded, the mourning, the defiant – spoke at the sentencing hearing for the gunman responsible for New Zealand’s most deadly terrorist attack, explaining how the massacre changed their lives forever. Here we document their ev…
Jacinda Ardern will talk to families of those killed, who say New Zealand should not pay for keeping the Australian terrorist locked up for lifeSome survivors of the mosque massacre in Christchurch are calling for Australia to pay for the lifetime pris…
The sentencing of the Christchurch gunman delivered a mood of catharsis and jubilation for manyNoraini Abbas Milne woke up her son, Sayyad, by tickling his feet, as was his usual request, and gave him a cuddle. It was 15 March 2019.She told him that sh…
New Zealanders and media embody Jacinda Ardern’s approach to deny gunman publicity, muting coverage until life sentence delivered‘Five million brothers and sisters’: relief mixes with joy in ChristchurchMosque gunman sentenced to life without parole On…
Survivors thank New Zealanders outside court for their support after news that mosque gunman will never leave jailChristchurch shooting: mosque gunman sentenced to life without parole Crowds gathered outside Christchurch high court and sang Stand By Me…