Some of you may have heard of Avi Yemini, the Australian journalist for Rebel News who has been covering protests in Australia extensively throughout the covid era. Last week he planned to come to New Zealand to cover a protest here, and was blocked at the border. Incidentally, the day of this protest there were an enormous number of "coincidental" things that just happened to get in the way of the protest - flight cancellations by the state-owned airline, a breakdown on a state-owned ferry, Facebook deletion of the account of a major independent journalist who would cover it (Chantelle Baker) the day before the protest and so forth, all timed perfectly to disrupt it. Avi's case fits into a wider pattern.
Avi Yemini was not allowed to board his plane at all, while his colleague was held up for a while but managed to board eventually. Various excuses have been given as to why - he was told one story, the media were told another, nothing added up.
But today a memo was leaked from the New Zealand Police. The day before the Rebel News team was booked to travel, the NZ Police told an Australian branch of Interpol that "NZ Police would like to stop the two from entering NZ and URGENTLY seek any information regarding criminal convictions or any information tending to show they are individuals of bad character..." - and also stating that, at that stage, "NZ Police do not hold any information on the two subjects".
So police had decided to block them from entry, while having no information which would suggest they should be denied entry - they had made a political decision to persecute those two individuals. Then they tried to abuse Interpol and use it to dig up dirt on the two. This is illegal, as Interpol's constitution forbids the organisation to undertake any activities of a political nature.
This is massive corruption that clearly shows New Zealand has become a police state.
And it is being completely ignored by the mainstream media inside the country, partly because one of the largest media organisations is directly implicated in the scandal from day 1 (follow the link for the details) and partly because the media has been bought out by the government and the government is clearly implicated. Please feel free to share this story with media in your own countries, as we need massive international media exposure for this to be acknowledged within NZ.
Here is the article that broke the story:
And here is Rebel News' take on it:
Avi Yemini was not allowed to board his plane at all, while his colleague was held up for a while but managed to board eventually. Various excuses have been given as to why - he was told one story, the media were told another, nothing added up.
But today a memo was leaked from the New Zealand Police. The day before the Rebel News team was booked to travel, the NZ Police told an Australian branch of Interpol that "NZ Police would like to stop the two from entering NZ and URGENTLY seek any information regarding criminal convictions or any information tending to show they are individuals of bad character..." - and also stating that, at that stage, "NZ Police do not hold any information on the two subjects".
So police had decided to block them from entry, while having no information which would suggest they should be denied entry - they had made a political decision to persecute those two individuals. Then they tried to abuse Interpol and use it to dig up dirt on the two. This is illegal, as Interpol's constitution forbids the organisation to undertake any activities of a political nature.
This is massive corruption that clearly shows New Zealand has become a police state.
And it is being completely ignored by the mainstream media inside the country, partly because one of the largest media organisations is directly implicated in the scandal from day 1 (follow the link for the details) and partly because the media has been bought out by the government and the government is clearly implicated. Please feel free to share this story with media in your own countries, as we need massive international media exposure for this to be acknowledged within NZ.
Here is the article that broke the story:
And here is Rebel News' take on it:
EXPLOSIVE LEAK: Secret Interpol memo on Avi Yemini NZ ban
An internal Interpol email has revealed the extraordinary plot to stop Rebel News reporting from an anti-government protest in New Zealand.
www.rebelnews.com