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📌 Public Announcement - Arrests
Since Thursday, there have been over 100 arrests from the protests at Parliament Grounds, Wellington. Police have charged people with trespass, resisting arrest, and misdemeanour. 👮🏼♀️👮🏻♂️
At this stage, many have received their charges and were released. There are, however, five women still held at Arahata and 19 at Rimutaka.
We have been actively supporting anyone charged, held in either the cells at Wellington or shifted to a prison.
We have engaged lawyers in Wellington trying to speak with both groups of women, but the Police and Corrections Staff are hampering this. We also need clearer and more concise information from the family members on the outside.
So we can continue to assist, we need details of a family member for the women held by police. Please send the name and contact phone number of the family member together with the name of the person being held to https://www.voicesforfreedom.co.nz/legal-advice-form [Please ensure these details are correct as we are receiving incorrect email and phone numbers and cannot help if we can't get in contact].
If you have been arrested, check out our Arrest Rights document: https://voicesforfreedom.co.nz/arrest-rights
If you have suffered any injuries, you need to go and see a GP, as explained in our Arrest Rights document linked immediately above.
If you are speaking to anyone that witnessed your arrest, we have set up a place where people can upload footage to: https://www.voicesforfreedom.co.nz/evidence
If you have been arrested and require some support, please fill in a Legal Help Request form https://voicesforfreedom.co.nz/legal-advice-form
Together we are MIGHTY! Together we are STRONG! 💖
Since Thursday, there have been over 100 arrests from the protests at Parliament Grounds, Wellington. Police have charged people with trespass, resisting arrest, and misdemeanour. 👮🏼♀️👮🏻♂️
At this stage, many have received their charges and were released. There are, however, five women still held at Arahata and 19 at Rimutaka.
We have been actively supporting anyone charged, held in either the cells at Wellington or shifted to a prison.
We have engaged lawyers in Wellington trying to speak with both groups of women, but the Police and Corrections Staff are hampering this. We also need clearer and more concise information from the family members on the outside.
So we can continue to assist, we need details of a family member for the women held by police. Please send the name and contact phone number of the family member together with the name of the person being held to https://www.voicesforfreedom.co.nz/legal-advice-form [Please ensure these details are correct as we are receiving incorrect email and phone numbers and cannot help if we can't get in contact].
If you have been arrested, check out our Arrest Rights document: https://voicesforfreedom.co.nz/arrest-rights
If you have suffered any injuries, you need to go and see a GP, as explained in our Arrest Rights document linked immediately above.
If you are speaking to anyone that witnessed your arrest, we have set up a place where people can upload footage to: https://www.voicesforfreedom.co.nz/evidence
If you have been arrested and require some support, please fill in a Legal Help Request form https://voicesforfreedom.co.nz/legal-advice-form
Together we are MIGHTY! Together we are STRONG! 💖