カテゴリー: Christchurch
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…
Australian terrorist did not oppose the unprecedented sentence, which comes after three days of emotional victim impact statements The terrorist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, will spend the rest of his li…
The massacre drew authorities’ attention to Australian extremists, but Covid has given the toxic movements fresh impetusIn the weeks after the New Zealand Christchurch massacre, the attention of the international media turned to a small town on the New…
More than 60 of those wounded or bereaved to read statements in court and the gunman – facing life without parole – will be given the chance to speakIn a high security and physically distanced courtroom on Monday will begin an end, of sorts, to one of …
Australian man who pleaded guilty to 51 counts of murder will be sentenced in AugustThe Australian man who pleaded guilty to killing 51 Muslims in a terrorist attack in Christchurch in March 2019 has chosen to represent himself at his sentencing next m…
Anjum Rahman and Aliya Danzeisen have devoted their lives to raising awareness of the warning signs before the terror attackIt was another long drive, another night away from home and another morning thinking nervously about what they would say, hoping…
A three-day court sitting will be held on August 24, after delays related to the coronavirus pandemicThe Australian man convicted of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings will be sentenced during an expected three-day court sitting beginning August 24…
Opposition immigration spokesman in New Zealand claims Kurdish refugee was let into the country only because he had ‘political friends’ in government Jacinda Ardern has denounced as “offensive” a suggestion that Behrouz Boochani benefited from a politi…
Despite attempts to address online hate speech in New Zealand and global praise at the response, an estimated 60-70 far-right groups still exist“They are us. The person who has perpetuated this violence against us is not,” said Jacinda Ardern, New Zeal…
New Zealand PM says people have become more engaged with the Muslim community Jacinda Ardern says New Zealanders have become more engaged with the Muslim community in the year since a gunman killed 51 people at two mosques.The prime minister is in Chri…
Second round of laws, including national firearms register, in limbo as ‘election-year politics’ hinder progress of changesNew Zealand will commemorate the first anniversary of the Christchurch mosques terror attack without a promised second tranche of…
I worry we don’t have enough resources and skills locally to adequately monitor threats in our communityIn the hours after the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15 last year, I wrote that I hoped New Zealand would finally stop believing it was immun…
As the first anniversary of the atrocity that shocked New Zealand looms, victims struggle with enduring trauma – but also carry a sense of hopeAt first, Hisham al Zarzour couldn’t remember what had happened. Later, he tried to forget. Lying beneath the…
Ahead of the first anniversary, New Zealand First’s Shane Jones goes into election mode and stokes racial tensions Isn’t it astonishing that, not even two weeks out from the Christchurch shooting’s first anniversary, the senior cabinet minister Shane J…