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July 17, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonian politicians who inked their commitment to a deal with France last weekend will be offered special police protection following threats, especially made on social media networks. The group includes almost 20 members of New Caledonia’s parties — both pro-France and pro-independence — who took ... <a title="Police protection for New Caledonian politicians following death threats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/17/police-protection-for-new-caledonian-politicians-following-death-threats/" aria-label="Read more about Police protection for New Caledonian politicians following death threats">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2025
By Jodesz Gavilan in Manila Paolo* was just 15 years old when he witnessed the Philippine National Police (PNP) mercilessly kill his father in 2016. Nearly nine years later, the scales are shifting as Rodrigo Duterte, the man who unleashed death upon his family and thousands of others, now faces the weight of justice before ... <a title="Drug war victims’ families celebrate Duterte’s arrest, vow to keep fighting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/12/drug-war-victims-families-celebrate-dutertes-arrest-vow-to-keep-fighting/" aria-label="Read more about Drug war victims’ families celebrate Duterte’s arrest, vow to keep fighting">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Papua New Guinea’s rising voice as opposition candidate for prime minister, East Sepik Governor Allan Bird, has pushed back after addressing recent death threats. Bird told RNZ Pacific he has declined police protection and is opting to use his own security after his nomination as opposition candidate for ... <a title="PNG MP Allan Bird on death threats: ‘Picking on me isn’t a smart thing to do’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/png-mp-allan-bird-on-death-threats-picking-on-me-isnt-a-smart-thing-to-do/" aria-label="Read more about PNG MP Allan Bird on death threats: ‘Picking on me isn’t a smart thing to do’">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2024
RNZ Pacific A Papua New Guinea MP who is being touted by the opposition as the next prime minister of the country says “my life is under threat”. East Sepik governor Allan Bird said that since his nomination, he had been advised of this by a deputy police commissioner, who said they were monitoring the ... <a title="Opposition MP Allan Bird claims his ‘life under threat’ after PM nomination" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/11/opposition-mp-allan-bird-claims-his-life-under-threat-after-pm-nomination/" aria-label="Read more about Opposition MP Allan Bird claims his ‘life under threat’ after PM nomination">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2024
RNZ News Former Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman — a leading voice in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament for human rights, an independent foreign policy, and justice for Occupied Palestine — was subject to “pretty much continuous” death threats and threats of violence, says party co-leader James Shaw. She has resigned as a Green Party MP ... <a title="Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman faced ‘continuous death threats’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/former-green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-faced-continuous-death-threats/" aria-label="Read more about Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman faced ‘continuous death threats’">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Damien Kingsbury, Deakin University New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has now been held hostage in West Papua for four months. Stalled attempts to negotiate his release, and an unsuccessful Indonesian military rescue attempt, suggest a confused picture behind the scenes. Members of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) kidnapped Mehrtens on February ... <a title="I was involved in stalled talks to free kidnapped NZ pilot in West Papua. What happens now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/15/i-was-involved-in-stalled-talks-to-free-kidnapped-nz-pilot-in-west-papua-what-happens-now/" aria-label="Read more about I was involved in stalled talks to free kidnapped NZ pilot in West Papua. What happens now?">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2023
By Finau Fonua and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists A researcher at Human Rights Watch in Jakarta is calling for the immediate release of the six hostages — including a New Zealand pilot — being held by a rebel group in Indonesia’s Papua region. The rebels in Highlands Papua are threatening to execute Susi Air ... <a title="Human rights researcher pleads for West Papuan rebels to free NZ pilot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/09/human-rights-researcher-pleads-for-west-papuan-rebels-to-free-nz-pilot/" aria-label="Read more about Human rights researcher pleads for West Papuan rebels to free NZ pilot">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2023
Airstrikes ordered against civilian targets, destruction of thousands of buildings, millions displaced, nearly 3000 civilians murdered, more than 13,000 jailed, the country’s independent media banished, and the country locked in a deadly nationwide civil war. Myanmar civilians now ask what else must happen before they receive international support in line with Ukraine, writes Phil Thornton. ... <a title="Myanmar’s military has ‘turned whole country into a prison’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/03/myanmars-military-has-turned-whole-country-into-a-prison/" aria-label="Read more about Myanmar’s military has ‘turned whole country into a prison’">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis, publisher of Knightly Views Every journalist that “outs” a conspiracy theorist or extremist paints a target on their own back. The anti-truth brigade thrives in dark places and shining a light on it and its associates is doing a public service. Yet it comes at a cost. The tone of abuse ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: Latter-day anarchists throw digital bombs at NZ journalists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/31/gavin-ellis-latter-day-anarchists-throw-digital-bombs-at-nz-journalists/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: Latter-day anarchists throw digital bombs at NZ journalists">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Lynley Tulloch There is a dangerous anger on rapid boil at the protest in Wellington. It is a stew of dispossession and unrest alongside various delusional beliefs and violent threats. Two weeks into the protest and the police have had to endure human waste and acid thrown at them; a car driven into ... <a title="Lynley Tulloch: The irony of the Parliament protest: Peace and love – and ‘executions’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/lynley-tulloch-the-irony-of-the-parliament-protest-peace-and-love-and-executions/" aria-label="Read more about Lynley Tulloch: The irony of the Parliament protest: Peace and love – and ‘executions’">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis It is common practice for journalists to share contact details and locations in hostile environments such as war zones. Something is very wrong when news organisations in New Zealand share those details about their staff covering a story in downtown Wellington. Stuff’s head of news Mark Stevens disclosed last Friday that ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: Copycat media abuse from ragtag bag of protesters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/gavin-ellis-copycat-media-abuse-from-ragtag-bag-of-protesters/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: Copycat media abuse from ragtag bag of protesters">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury Two high-profile University of Auckland academics raised important questions about academic freedom with their complaint to the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) that their employer had failed its duty of care to them. Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles and Professor Shaun Hendy have become well known for their work explaining ... <a title="What does ‘academic freedom’ mean in practice? Why the Siouxsie Wiles and Shaun Hendy employment case matters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/15/what-does-academic-freedom-mean-in-practice-why-the-siouxsie-wiles-and-shaun-hendy-employment-case-matters/" aria-label="Read more about What does ‘academic freedom’ mean in practice? Why the Siouxsie Wiles and Shaun Hendy employment case matters">Read more</a>
