{"id":37494,"date":"2021-09-30T08:46:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T23:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/30\/new-zealand-makes-plotting-a-terrorist-attack-a-fixing-legal-loophole"},"modified":"2021-09-30T08:46:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T23:46:18","slug":"two-years-after-christchurch-new-zealand-makes-plotting-a-terrorist-attack-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37494","title":{"rendered":"Two years after Christchurch, New Zealand makes plotting a terrorist attack a crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to the law were recommended after the 2019 Christchurch shootings and sped up after a supermarket knife attack earlier this month<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand has passed a law that makes plotting a terrorist attack a crime, fixing a legal loophole that was exposed earlier this month by a violent knife attack.<\/p>\n<p>The new law had been months in the planning but was hurried through parliament after an extremist inspired by the Islamic State group grabbed a knife at an Auckland supermarket on 3 September and began stabbing shoppers. He wounded five while two others were injured in the chaos. All are still recovering.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/30\/new-zealand-makes-plotting-a-terrorist-attack-a-fixing-legal-loophole\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to the law were recommended after the 2019 Christchurch shootings and sped up after a supermarket knife attack earlier this monthNew Zealand has passed a law that makes plotting a terrorist attack a crime, fixing a legal loophole that was expos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-37494","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\/37494","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37495,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37494\/revisions\/37495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}