{"id":36489,"date":"2021-09-06T07:57:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T22:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/06\/new-zealand-to-consider-law-change-in-wake-of-auckland-supermarket-terrorist-attack"},"modified":"2021-09-06T18:01:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T09:01:24","slug":"new-zealand-to-consider-law-change-in-wake-of-auckland-supermarket-terrorist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36489","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand stabbings: new law to close loophole to pass in September, says Ardern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM says supermarket terrorist had fraudulent refugee status amid warnings against kneejerk reactions<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has said that a legal loophole which allowed an Islamic State-inspired terrorist to remain free will be closed off with new legislation by the end of September.<\/p>\n<p>The country had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/05\/new-zealand-stabbings-officials-tried-for-years-to-deport-terrorist-prior-to-auckland-attack-jacinda-adern-says\">tried for years<\/a> to deport Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen, a 32-year-old Sri Lankan man who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/03\/man-shot-dead-in-new-zealand-after-injuring-people-in-supermarket-police-say\">shot dead by police<\/a> following Friday\u2019s attack at a supermarket in Auckland. Seven people were hurt in the attack, five of them with stab wounds. Three of those injured were in a critical condition in hospital on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/06\/new-zealand-to-consider-law-change-in-wake-of-auckland-supermarket-terrorist-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM says supermarket terrorist had fraudulent refugee status amid warnings against kneejerk reactionsNew Zealand\u2019s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has said that a legal loophole which allowed an Islamic State-inspired terrorist to remain free will be cl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"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":[41,268,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","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\/36489","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\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36558,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36489\/revisions\/36558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}