Man accused in Christchurch mosque slayings of 51 pleads not guilty
The man accused of the New Zealand mosque attacks smirked as his lawyer entered not guilty pleas to terrorism, murder and attempted murder charges Friday before a judge who set his trial for next May. The courtroom was filled with 80 survivors and family members ...
Man accused of murder in Christchurch mosque shootings also charged with terrorism
New Zealand police have charged the man accused of murder in shootings at two Christchurch mosques in March with engaging in a terrorist act, they said Tuesday. In an attack broadcast live on Facebook, a lone gunman armed with semi-automatic weapons targeted Muslims attending Friday ...
New Zealand votes to amend gun laws after Christchurch attack
Lawmakers in New Zealand voted almost unanimously on Wednesday to change gun laws, less than a month after its worst peacetime mass shooting, in which 50 people were killed in attacks on two mosques in Christchurch. Parliament passed the gun reform bill, the first substantial ...
Christchurch massacre gunman Brenton Tarrant charged with 49 more mosque murders
Australian Brenton Tarrant appeared in a New Zealand court on Friday where the suspected white supremacist was charged with an additional 49 counts of murder at two mosques last month. In an attack broadcast live on Facebook, a lone gunman armed with semi-automatic weapons targeted ...
New Zealand allows 'intrusive' spy operations after Christchurch mosque shootings
New Zealand's intelligence minister said Wednesday he was allowing spy agencies to carry out "intrusive" activities following the Christchurch mosque shootings, which claimed 50 lives. The government this week ordered a judicial inquiry into whether the South Pacific nation's intelligence services could have prevented the ...
New Zealand orders top-level inquiry into whether mosque massacre could've been prevented
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday ordered an independent judicial inquiry into the Christchurch mosque attacks, asking whether police and intelligence services could have prevented the March 15 massacre. Ardern said a royal commission — the most powerful judicial probe available under New ...
Imam says New Zealand is broken-hearted but not broken as nation mourns victims of mosque massacres
New Zealanders observed the Muslim call to prayer Friday in reflecting on the moment one week earlier when 50 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques were slain — an act that, an imam told the crowd of thousands, had left the country broken-hearted but not ...
Christchurch Muslim greeted mosque killer with 'Hello, brother,' and was gunned down
"Hello, brother." The warm-hearted words an elderly Muslim reportedly used to greet a white supremacist gunman have become Christchurch's answer to his volley of hate. Mohemmed Daoud Nabi, a 71-year-old from war-torn Afghanistan, was buried on Thursday. But his supposed final words echo across this ...
Tokyo residents mourn victims of New Zealand mosque shootings
About two dozen Muslim residents of Japan huddled together Tuesday afternoon outside the New Zealand Embassy in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward at a vigil for the victims of last week's mosque shootings in Christchurch. [video_embed number="1"] Participants from countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iraq and Indonesia gathered ...
New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern vows never to speak killer's name
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed Tuesday never to utter the name of the twin-mosque gunman as she opened a somber session of Parliament with an evocative "as salaam alaikum" message of peace to Muslims. "He will face the full force of the law ...
Tech consortium flags more than 800 versions of New Zealand attack video shared online
A consortium of global technology firms has shared on its collective database the digital fingerprints of more than 800 versions of the video of New Zealand's mass shootings that killed 50 people, it said on Monday. While it was not the first internet broadcast of ...
Grieving New Zealand turns to gun laws as it looks for lessons from Christchurch mosque massacre
After days of intense grieving for New Zealand's worst-ever mass shooting, attention began to turn to how the country's gun laws need to change and what warning signs might have been missed ahead of a gunman's attack on two mosques that killed 50 people. Bodies ...
