{"id":38720,"date":"2021-11-08T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T03:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/08\/christchurch-mosque-shooter-claims-guilty-plea-obtained-under-duress-expected-to-appeal"},"modified":"2021-11-08T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T03:39:11","slug":"christchurch-mosque-shooter-claims-guilty-plea-obtained-under-duress-expected-to-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38720","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch mosque shooter claims guilty plea obtained under duress, expected to appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imam says killer is \u2018grandstanding\u2019 and should not be allowed to re-traumatise New Zealanders<\/p>\n

The Christchurch mosque terrorist has filed complaints alleging that his treatment in New Zealand custody \u2013 including the refusal to refer to him by name \u2013 constituted a violation of his human rights, and that his guilty pleas were obtained under duress.<\/p>\n

Brenton Tarrant, an Australian white supremacist who murdered 51 people in an attack on two Christchurch mosques<\/a> in March 2019, said via a memorandum from his lawyer Dr Tony Ellis that his guilty pleas were obtained under duress due to mistreatment in custody. He was sentenced to life imprisonment<\/a> without the possibility of parole in August 2020. Ellis told local media outlets that he expected the gunman, Tarrant, to file an appeal against his convictions.<\/p>\n

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Imam says killer is \u2018grandstanding\u2019 and should not be allowed to re-traumatise New ZealandersThe Christchurch mosque terrorist has filed complaints alleging that his treatment in New Zealand custody \u2013 including the refusal to refer to him by name \u2013 con…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"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":[41,43,213,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","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\/38720","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\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38721,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38720\/revisions\/38721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}