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WORLD NEWS Friday 1 July 2022
New Zealand designates Proud Boys a terrorist organization

By NICK PERRY up various smoke screens
Associated Press to hide its extremism.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand Earlier this month, the for-
(AP) — New Zealand’s gov- mer leader of the Proud
ernment has declared that Boys, Henry “Enrique” Tar-
American far-right groups rio, and four others linked
the Proud Boys and The to the group were charged
Base are terrorist organiza- in the U.S. with seditious
tions. conspiracy for what fed-
The two groups join 18 oth- eral prosecutors say was a
ers including Islamic State coordinated attack on the
that have been given an Capitol.
official terrorist designation, The indictment alleges that
making it illegal in New Zea- the Proud Boys conspired
land to fund, recruit or par- to forcibly oppose the law-
ticipate in the groups, and ful transfer of presidential
obligating authorities to power. The five are sched-
take action against them. uled to stand trial in August
The U.S. groups are not in Washington, D.C.’s fed-
known to be active in New eral court.
Zealand, although the Asked by media Thursday
South Pacific nation has in New Zealand if the Proud
become more attuned to New Zealand Police Minister Chris Hipkins during his press conference at Parliament, Wellington, Boys weren’t better known
threats from the far right New Zealand, Thursday, June 30, 2022. Associated Press for protest actions rather
after a white supremacist than extreme violence,
shot and killed 51 Muslim But the Proud Boys were on the U.S. Capitol building are unlinked but ideologi- New Zealand Police Minis-
worshippers at two Christ- last year named a terror- on Jan. 6, 2021 amounted cally affiliated chapters of ter Chris Hipkins said: “Well,
church mosques in 2019. ist group in Canada, while to an act of terrorism. the Proud Boys operating in violent protests attempting
The New Zealand mas- The Base has previously The statement said that Canada and Australia. to overthrow the govern-
sacre inspired other white been declared a terrorist while several militia groups New Zealand authorities ar- ment, clearly there is evi-
supremacists around the group in Britain, Canada were involved, it was the gued that before the Capi- dence of that.”
world, including a white and Australia. Proud Boys who incited tol attack, the Proud Boys In making its case against
gunman who killed 10 Black In a 29-page explanation crowds, coordinated at- had a history of using street The Base, New Zealand
people at a supermarket in of the Proud Boys designa- tacks on law enforcement rallies and social media to authorities said a key goal
Buffalo, New York. tion published Thursday, officers and led other rioters intimidate opponents and of the group was to “train
In the U.S., the State De- New Zealand authorities to where they could break recruit young men through a cadre of extremists ca-
partment only lists foreign said the group’s involve- into the building. demonstrations of violence. pable of accelerationist
groups as terrorist entities. ment in the violent attack The statement said there It said the group had put violence.”q

Sudan doctors: 6 people killed in mass anti-coup rallies

By NOHA ELHENNAWY of demonstrators trying to al-Bashir.
CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese reach the Republican Pal- Thursday’s protests also fell
security forces shot and ace, the military’s seat of on the third anniversary of a
killed six people during power in the heart of the 2019 mass rally that forced
anti-coup protests Thurs- city. Videos showing thou- the generals to sit down at
day, a medical group said sands waving Sudanese the negotiating table with
as thousands marched to flags and running under pro-democracy groups
denounce the country’s clouds of tear gas were and eventually sign a pow-
military rulers and demand posted on social media. er-sharing agreement that
an immediate transfer of Other videos show dem- was expected to govern
power to civilians. onstrators raising banners Sudan during a transitional
The Sudan’s Doctors Com- reading “No Negotiations! period, until general elec-
mittee said in a tweet that No Partnership” reiterat- tions were to be held. The
four people were fatally ing their opposition to any coup last October scuttled
shot when police fired live power-sharing deal with this arrangement.
ammunition at protesters the military rulers. Meanwhile, the London- Sudanese women chant slogans protesting security forces’
in Omdurman, the twin city Sudan’s leading pro-de- based internet advocacy use of violence against anti-coup protesters in the city of
of Khartoum, the Sudanese mocracy groups Forces group, NetBlocks, said inter- Omdurman, 18 miles (30 km) northwest of Sudan’s capital
capital. for the Declaration of Free- net access was disrupted Khartoum on Saturday, June 25, 2022.
Across the Nile River in dom and Change and the across many mobile and Associated Press

Khartoum, a fifth person Resistance Committees fixed-line internet provid-
died after being shot in the had called for nationwide ers in Sudan on Thursday, against the use of network gered near-weekly street
head and a child died af- protest on Thursday to re- including state operator disruptions and social me- demonstrations, which au-
ter being shot in the chest, iterate their demands for Sudantel, leaving national dia restrictions to counter thorities have met with a
according the group, a reversal of the Oct. 25 connectivity at only 17% of protests, given their dispro- deadly crackdown that
which tracks casualties dur- military coup. The takeover its ordinary level. portionate impact to fun- has so far killed 109 people,
ing protests. The identity of upended the East African Cuts to internet services damental rights including including Thursday’s casu-
all six was not immediately country’s short-lived transi- have been routinely re- freedom of expression and alties.
known. tion to democracy follow- corded ahead of most an- freedom of assembly,” said Among those killed were 18
Also in Khartoum, police ing the 2019 ouster of long- ti-coup protests. the London-based group. children, according to the
fired tear gas at thousands time autocratic ruler Omar “NetBlocks recommends The October coup trig- Doctors Committee.q