Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Aug 26, 2020
Australian Brenton Tarrant is expected to become the first person in New Zealand imprisoned for life without prospect of parole when his sentence is handed down.
Asia Pacific Mar 14, 2020
New Zealand cancels national mosque massacre remembrance over virus fears
New Zealand has canceled a national remembrance service to mark Sunday's first anniversary of the Christchurch mosque attacks because of coronavirus fears, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. "This is a pragmatic decision. We're very saddened to cancel, but in remembering such a terrible tragedy, we ...
Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Sep 13, 2019
Six months after Christchurch attacks, New Zealand bill would tighten gun laws further
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern introduced a new bill to Parliament on Friday that aims to further tighten gun laws, and the country marked six months since a mass shooting in Christchurch that killed 51 Muslim worshippers. This is New Zealand's second set of ...
Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal May 21, 2019
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 ...
Asia Pacific Apr 10, 2019
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 ...
Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Apr 5, 2019
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 ...
National Mar 19, 2019
Tokyo residents mourn victims of New Zealand mosque shootings
by Magdalena Osumi
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 ...
Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Mar 19, 2019
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 ...
Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Mar 19, 2019
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 ...
Asia Pacific Mar 18, 2019
New gun laws will make New Zealand safer after mosque massacre, PM Jacinda Ardern says
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday she would announce new gun laws within days, after at least 50 people were killed in mass shootings at two mosques in the city of Christchurch. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with ...
Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Mar 18, 2019
Livestreaming delays proposed as way to discourage more viral massacre videos
With the massacre of at least 50 people in New Zealand streamed live Friday, Facebook faced two problems: The immediacy of Facebook Live, and the fact that videos of any sort — including playbacks of live ones — can quickly explode globally. It might be ...
Asia Pacific Mar 17, 2019
Families of Christchurch mosque shooting victims wait to bury their dead; toll rises to 50
The death toll in the New Zealand mosque shootings rose to 50 on Sunday when police found another body at one of the mosques as families waited for authorities to formally identify victims and release their bodies for burial. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected ...