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Two plead guilty over graphic Islamic videos

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Two Auckland men have now pleaded guilty to what is believed to be New Zealand’s first charges for watching radical Islamic videos of beheading and violence.

Niroshan Nawarajan, 27, and Imran Patel, 26, have been in custody since they were arrested – Patel in November last year and Nawarajan in January.

Nawarajan pleaded guilty in the Auckland District Court yesterday for possessing objectionable material that was said to have involved graphic violent images. Prosecorors described the images as showing “extreme cruelty and violence”.

Police found Nawarajan in possession of a laptop containing offensive video files entitled “Flames of War” and “Massacre of the Shias,” according to court documents. Nawarajan also pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and resisting arrest.

Patel pleaded guilty to charges of breaching the Films, Videos and Publications Classifications Act [see Appendix below. Note 1] by making objectionable publications, two charges of distributing that material, and one charge of possession of objectionable material. All involve radicalised Islamic material.

According to court documents, Patel is alleged to have created a DVD with 31 clips.

The compilation allegedly included 13 featuring people being beheaded, shot, blown up, set on fire and having limbs amputated as well as graphic war footage.

Both will be sentenced in June.

Patel was previously arrested in 2014 for allegedly threatening members of the Avondale mosque in a dispute between two Islamic factions battling for control of the mosque.

Patel and the imam he supported, Abu Abdulla, were barred from entering the mosque by the New Zealand Muslim Association which ran the mosque.

One of those involved in the disputes was named in a United States Embassy warning in 2005 as a person being monitored by the police for potential terrorist allegiances.

Source: Story by Shane Cowlishaw and Kelly Dennett. The Dominion Post, Saturday, May 7, 2016, p. A12.

Appendix:

Note 1

The Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993

Section 3. Meaning of objectionable

(2) A publication shall be deemed to be objectionable for the purposes of this Act if the publication promotes or supports, or tends to promote or support,

(a) the exploitation of children, or young persons, or both, for sexual purposes; or

(b) the use of violence or coercion to compel any person to participate in, or submit to, sexual conduct, or

(c) sexual conduct with or upon the body of a dead person, or

(d) the use of urine or excrement in association with degrading or dehumanising conduct or sexual conduct; or

(e) bestiality; or

(f) acts of torture or the infliction of extreme violence or extreme cruelty.

Sex txts can end with jail

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Your private text messages are officially “publications” and writing something objectionable could land you in jail for 10 years according to a landmark ruling.

The ruling was made in January after lawyers sought to have a man’s sexual text messages to a 12-year-old girl classified as “objectionable publications” so he could be prosecuted for distributing banned material.

NetSafe chief technology officer Sean Lyons, whose organisation advises on digital safety, said “the fact they’ve said you can now call a text a publication – that’s a big deal. It’s another case for all of us in our increasingly connected world – here’s another one of these ‘stop, think and check’ processes before we create content.”…………..

A bill before Parliament would stop such a situation from occurring again. The Objectionable Publications and Indecency Legislation Bill, currently at select committee stage, would introduce an offence of “indecent communication with a young person” where the onus would be on any “sexter” to determine whether the recipient was 16 or older.

A 2014 survey by internet security firm McAfee found that 54 per cent of users had sent or received “intimate content”. For 18 to 24 year-olds the proportion rose to 70 per cent.

Full story here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/10132043/Sex-txts-can-end-with-jail

Suspended Child Porn Doctor Should Be Named – says Family First

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Family First Media Release 2 September 2010

[Note Family First is a registered charity with the Charities Commission. See www.familyfirst.org.nz and www.charities.govt.nz ]

Family First NZ says that a doctor convicted of possessing and distributing child sex abuse images should be named.

“Patients and parents should be informed so that they can make an informed choice as to whether they continue having him as their family doctor, even after his nine month suspension,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of
Family First NZ.

“The doctor in question admitted 25 charges of possessing objectionable material and one charge of distributing an objectionable publication. He not only had 290,000 images of young girls in explicit sexual poses but as well as that, the doctor was found to be distributing objectionable material further. This is not a one-off slip.”

“The rights of the doctor to name suppression and privacy should not be greater than the right of patients and especially parents to know the character of their doctor. That is the price the doctor must pay to match the gravity of
the abuse of children. Many parents would rightly be concerned at a doctor with those convictions examining their young son or daughter.”

“Parents should be given the right to make an informed decision,” says Mr McCoskrie.