Tag: Terrorist attack
Rise in NZ disinformation, conspiracy theories prompts calls for election protections
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist
Unprecedented levels of disinformation will only get worse this election in Aotearoa New Zealand, but systems set...
NZ Corrections found attacker ‘increasingly hostile and abusive’
By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News reporter
New Zealand's Department of Corrections has revealed more details about the LynnMall terrorist's violent behaviour while he was remanded...
Auckland terror attacker ‘brainwashed’ by neighbours, mother says
The mother of Auckland's LynnMall shopping mall terror attacker in New Zealand says he was brainwashed by neighbours from the Middle East.
Ahamed Aathill Mohamed...
Auckland terrorist’s name suppression revoked, but remains secret for now
By Sarah Robson, RNZ News Reporter
Name suppression for the man responsible for yesterday's New Zealand terror attack at a west Auckland supermarket has been...
NZ mall stabbings a terrorist attack by ‘lone wolf’, says PM...
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says an attack at Auckland's New Lynn Countdown supermarket today was a terrorist attack carried out by...
Kabul attack: Ardern says no NZDF personnel, evacuees at airport blasts
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the final New Zealand Defence Force evacuation flight from Afghanistan landed back in the United Arab Emirates last...
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...
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...
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...