{"id":31288,"date":"2021-04-23T10:54:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T01:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/23\/christchurch-terrorist-drops-legal-challenge-over-new-zealand-prison-conditions"},"modified":"2021-04-23T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T01:54:59","slug":"christchurch-terrorist-drops-legal-challenge-over-new-zealand-prison-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31288","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch terrorist drops legal challenge over New Zealand prison conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mosque shooter had requested a judicial review but failed to appear in court last week<\/p>\n<p>The gunman who killed 51 people in the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks has reportedly dropped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/christchurch-mosque-terrorist-to-launch-legal-challenge-in-new-zealand-high-court\">legal challenges over his prison conditions<\/a> and his status as a \u201cterrorist entity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A document released by Justice Geoffrey Venning showed Brenton Tarrant had withdrawn his application, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/christchurch-mosque-shooting-terrorist-drops-legal-challenge-over-prison-conditions\/CMIGKTSLB6C6S3AVSF7XUM2LGA\/\">New Zealand Herald reported<\/a> on Friday. The document was not immediately available from the court.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/23\/christchurch-terrorist-drops-legal-challenge-over-new-zealand-prison-conditions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mosque shooter had requested a judicial review but failed to appear in court last weekThe gunman who killed 51 people in the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks has reportedly dropped legal challenges over his prison conditions and his status as a \u201cterror&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,214,213,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christchurch","category-christchurch-shooting","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31289,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31288\/revisions\/31289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}