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The Plot to Stop Avi Yemini Revealed

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New documents released under the Official Information Act show how Immigration NZ scrambled to stop Avi Yemini entering New Zealand BEFORE it was even known that he would be coming to report on the protest at parliament. The heavily redacted documents show a predisposition towards refusing entry as they urgently seek the necessary information that would allow them to turn around an Australian citizen.

Police notified Immigration NZ at 8:11pm on Sunday 21 August of their desire to prevent Avi Yemini from entering New Zealand. Immigration NZ then scrambled urgently to get the information needed to support their hasty decision to try to ban Avi Yemini, even though they had no confirmation that he was even coming to New Zealand.

Worse still, Daniel List, Immigration NZ’s central region duty officer added the following comment to the late-night email: “Note the propensity for both individuals to incite and agitate people with opposing views.”

Immigration NZ OIA

What you can see here is confirmation that it was Police who decided that they didn’t want Avi Yemini coming to New Zealand, and their reasoning was entirely political. Then Immigration NZ fell over backwards to help their pals in the NZ Police.

What we are seeing is just how far our democracy has fallen, when Police and Immigration are plotting to refuse entry to people who they consider hold opposing views to the government of the day. This is an outrage, and yet the regime’s handmaidens in the bought, bribed and corrupted mainstream media have remained utterly silent on this outrage and travesty against a free and civil society.

The email trail shows very clearly the Police wanted Avi Yemini banned, and Immigration actually documented that this decision was entirely Immigration’s to make, but that they had to dot i’s and cross t’s to support a decision already being made to refuse entry.

They then set about trying to pigeonhole the information that they pressured out of Australia to support their decision to refuse entry. They helpfully recorded their intentions on paper and in their systems.

As you can clearly see the decision to refuse entry was initially based on total supposition, that “there are concerns that this person MAY travel to NZ next week to join the protest at Parliament and may MISBEHAVE”.

Quite simply those are not grounds for refusing entry to an Australian citizen who is also a journalist. They needed more. Which is why they begged Interpol illegally for assistance.

That is the ONLY information they had, and it is clearly not enough to ban Avi Yemini from New Zealand, as our immigration laws state in no uncertain terms.

But they went ahead anyway, even providing real-time email reporting of the process:

Followed by cringeworthy emails of praise for a plot well executed:

This is hardly the stuff of an impartial and objective Immigration NZ. They are doing the bidding of the Police then giving themselves a high five for a job well done, even when it is obvious that there were literally no grounds for refusing entry for Avi Yemini.

If you aren’t shocked by the now obvious collusion of Police and Immigration NZ working together to prevent a journalist from travelling to New Zealand then you are part of the problem.

Police illegally used Interpol to obtain information to support a political decision to prevent entry for Avi Yemini. They were aided and abetted by Immigration NZ, who also acted politically, seeking to prevent entry because Avi Yemini might “misbehave” and he is known to Chantelle Baker and might “agitate people with opposing views”.

In Victoria, Police were forced to apologise to Avi Yemini. This case seems to be heading the same way, except it won’t just be Police apologising: it will also be Immigration NZ.

Before you all forget how all this came about, it was as a result of a defamatory article in the NZ Herald that took quotes out of context and smeared both Avi Yemini and Rukshan Fernando. The same NZ Herald that has received millions of dollars in handouts from the Ardern regime.

What we have here is a clear-cut case of political profiling of two journalists, then a conspiracy to find any evidence to refuse entry to New Zealand based entirely on their political leanings. This is an outrage. Yet our mainstream media won’t touch it. It appears they haven’t even troubled their keyboards to bother to send any OIA requests to get to the bottom of an outrageous degradation of fundamental rights to freedom of association and freedom of expression.

It seems now that if this regime doesn’t like your politics then you will be banned from entry to New Zealand. It isn’t too much of a step for that same government to start to silence dissenting voices also. If they can ban journalists because they might misbehave, then what is there to stop them deciding that a certain website might post embarrassing information and have them shut down too?

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