TEHRAN (IQNA) – New Zealand’s government plans to further expand terrorism laws in an apparent bid to stop the Christchurch mosque attacker’s status as a terrorist expiring or being revoked. The government had sought to improve the control orders regime after a 2021 terror attack in which seven people were stabbed at an Auckland supermarket. National Party leader Christopher Luxon said he had not “seen the detail” of the terror laws change but believed the party would support it. There is an old saying that lawyers have: Hard cases make bad law.”The government previously expedited an overhaul of terrorism laws, which included an expansion of terrorism control orders, in September 2021 after the Auckland Countdown attack. The law change, which had been recommended by the Royal Commission into the Christchurch mosque terror attacks, criminalized terror attack planning, preparation, weapons and combat training, with a maximum punishment of seven years in prison.

Source: Stuff October 19, 2022 09:28 UTC