Tag: Christchurch Terror Attack
Tight security at NZ court for start of mosque attacker sentence...
By RNZ News
Warning: This story includes distressing details of the 15 March 2019 mosque terrorism attacks.
The High Court in Christchurch was ringed with heavy...
Jailing the Christchurch terrorist will cost NZ millions. A prisoner swap...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
There is no death penalty in New Zealand, unlike the United States. But Christchurch terrorist Brenton Tarrant, due...
Foreign media told to ‘obey rules’ over mosque gunman sentencing
By Tracy Neal of RNZ News
A senior journalism lecturer is urging the foreign media to respect New Zealand's strict reporting restrictions for the sentencing of...
NZ mosque massacre: Gunman pleads guilty to all charges
By RNZ News
The man due to go on trial for the mosque attacks in Christchurch on 15 March 2019 has today pleaded guilty to...
Far-right extremists still threaten NZ, a year on from Christchurch attacks
ANALYSIS: By Paul Spoonley of Massey University
In the hours after the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15 last year, I wrote that I hoped...
PM Jacinda Ardern pays tribute to Fijians killed in Christchurch attacks
By RNZ Pacific
Jacinda Ardern has paid tribute to the three Fijians who died in last year's Christchurch mosque shootings.
Ardern spoke today at Lautoka Mosque...
NZ mosque massacre, New Caledonia referendum and Fiji elections top PJR
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
New Zealand’s unprecedented “internet-native mass shooting” attack on two mosques, the New Caledonia independence referendum, Fiji’s general election and news media...
Court appearance: Mosque attack survivors’ and families’ painful day
FIRST PERSON: By Katie Todd, of RNZ News, reporting outside the High Court in Christchurch
The latest chapter in the court proceedings of the accused...
After the NZ massacre, survivors and activists tell different story
The Al Jazeera 101 East investigative report ... was the Christchurch mosque killer a "true lone wolf?"
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Quiet, picturesque New Zealand was...
NZ media companies agree on protocol for covering mosque terror attack...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
New Zealand’s major media companies have agreed to follow a strict protocol when covering the trial of the Christchurch mosque accused terrorist.
The...
‘We all need to act on terror’ – PM says NZ,...
By RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that NZ and France will lead global efforts to try to end the use of social...
NZ’s gun law change: ‘One of the most important pieces of...
By John Gerritsen of RNZ News
National Party MPs crossed the floor of New Zealand's Parliament to congratulate Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and Police Minister...
Christchurch mosque attacks: Accused gunman appears in court via video link
By RNZ News
The man charged over the Christchurch mosque shootings last month appeared in the High Court in Christchurch today, accused of killing 50...
Thousands in NZ don’t believe official Christchurch terror attacks story
By Ben Strang of RNZ News
Thousands of New Zealanders do not believe the official version of the mosque terror attacks in Christchurch.
About 5 percent...
Ramzy Baroud: Can Christchurch heal our collective wounds?
OPINION: By Ramzy Baroud
I visited the city of Christchurch on May 23, 2018, as part of a larger speaking tour in New Zealand that...
Mediawatch NZ: Reporting Islam before and after 15/3
Al Noor Mosque imam Gamal Fouda speaking to Christchurch, New Zealand, and the watching world. He says despite the terrorist's intentions, New Zealand remains...
Mosque atrocity remembrance service calls for ‘love, solidarity’ to continue
Fifty Kowhai Intermediate School children sing the waiata at the remembrance service in Eden Park rugby stadium in Auckland today. Video: Del Abcede/PMC
By Amy...
‘Misconceived hatred’ gives way to Muslim voices finally being heard
By Jeremy Rose of RNZ Mediawatch
In 2017, the New Zealand media featured 14,349 stories that included the word Islam - nearly 13,000 of those...
Christchurch terror in context: Media as accessory to the crime?
Listening Post's report on Islamophobia in the Western media. Video: Al Jazeera
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
It has now been almost two weeks since 50 people...
NZ Royal Commission to probe security agencies, says Ardern
By RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that New Zealand will hold a Royal Commission of Inquiry into security agencies following the Christchurch...
Paul Buchanan: Soul-searching NZ must ‘own’ this terrorist attack
ANALYSIS: By Dr Paul G Buchanan
The terrorist attack on two Christchurch mosques this month is a watershed moment in New Zealand history.
In the days,...