According to James Shaw, she faced continuous sexual, physical threats.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/01/16/ghahr...eats-shaw/
"Golriz Ghahraman was subject to almost continuous threats of sexual and physical violence — including death threats — in her six years as an MP, Greens co-leader James Shaw claims.
He made the comments in a press conference this afternoon in Auckland, following Ghahraman's announcement she would immediately resign from Parliament, amid shoplifting allegations.
The former human rights lawyer and Iranian refugee apologised in a statement around midday today, saying she had let a lot of people down and would take accountability for her actions. She said she had fallen short of expectations and mental health was a factor in her acting "in ways that are completely out of character".
This afternoon, Shaw said Parliament was "obviously" a stressful place but Ghahraman had been "subject to pretty much continuous threats of sexual violence, physical violence, death threats since the day she was elected to parliament".
"That has added a higher level of stress than is experienced by most of parliament.
"That has meant, for example, that there have been police investigations into those threats almost the entire time she has been in parliament.
"Obviously, if you're living with that level of threat in what is already quite a stressful situation, then there are going to be consequences for that. I have a lot of empathy for the fact that she has identified that she is in a state of extreme mental distress.
"She's taking accountability for her actions."
Marama Davidson said there was a "high quality and very robust" selection process for Green MPs but MPs of all parties were "still human" when they came into politics.
She said the party would continue to support Ghahraman through "a really distressing time", saying Ghahraman was "clearly distressed".
"We know that this is the right decision for her — to apologise and resign from Parliament for her wellbeing, for her to be able to focus."
She said the focus now was to give Ghahraman "aroha and compassion".
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/01/16/timel...ghahraman/
She has talked of the threats she has received for taking public positions and the need to have security at times. She has also spoken in Parliament of the many times she was told she wasn’t welcome in New Zealand and didn’t have a right to criticise politicians.
After working as a criminal defence lawyer in New Zealand, she worked for the United Nations tribunals on Rwanda and Cambodia.
She has been a strong advocate for human rights, including appearing before the Supreme Court to argue cases. Among the issues she campaigned on were justice reform, refugee and migrant rights, and for family carers of disabled people."
It is definitely revolting; sometimes we're just not a very nice species. The media will be ecstatic & will no doubt spin this for weeks.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/01/16/ghahr...eats-shaw/
"Golriz Ghahraman was subject to almost continuous threats of sexual and physical violence — including death threats — in her six years as an MP, Greens co-leader James Shaw claims.
He made the comments in a press conference this afternoon in Auckland, following Ghahraman's announcement she would immediately resign from Parliament, amid shoplifting allegations.
The former human rights lawyer and Iranian refugee apologised in a statement around midday today, saying she had let a lot of people down and would take accountability for her actions. She said she had fallen short of expectations and mental health was a factor in her acting "in ways that are completely out of character".
This afternoon, Shaw said Parliament was "obviously" a stressful place but Ghahraman had been "subject to pretty much continuous threats of sexual violence, physical violence, death threats since the day she was elected to parliament".
"That has added a higher level of stress than is experienced by most of parliament.
"That has meant, for example, that there have been police investigations into those threats almost the entire time she has been in parliament.
"Obviously, if you're living with that level of threat in what is already quite a stressful situation, then there are going to be consequences for that. I have a lot of empathy for the fact that she has identified that she is in a state of extreme mental distress.
"She's taking accountability for her actions."
Marama Davidson said there was a "high quality and very robust" selection process for Green MPs but MPs of all parties were "still human" when they came into politics.
She said the party would continue to support Ghahraman through "a really distressing time", saying Ghahraman was "clearly distressed".
"We know that this is the right decision for her — to apologise and resign from Parliament for her wellbeing, for her to be able to focus."
She said the focus now was to give Ghahraman "aroha and compassion".
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/01/16/timel...ghahraman/
She has talked of the threats she has received for taking public positions and the need to have security at times. She has also spoken in Parliament of the many times she was told she wasn’t welcome in New Zealand and didn’t have a right to criticise politicians.
After working as a criminal defence lawyer in New Zealand, she worked for the United Nations tribunals on Rwanda and Cambodia.
She has been a strong advocate for human rights, including appearing before the Supreme Court to argue cases. Among the issues she campaigned on were justice reform, refugee and migrant rights, and for family carers of disabled people."
(16-01-2024, 11:51 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: When a member of the public, an ordinary citizen does something silly, like drink and drive, or shoplift, or have an affair or whatever, it doesn't usually make the papers. There aren't journalists asking people to come forward and tell tales. Careers are usually safe. If it reaches court there is little chance of the neighbours following details on the local media.
And don't tell me it doesn't happen. Anyone who claims to have never ever stuffed up badly is delusional. Or deadly boring.
But as soon as it is one of the folk who dared to put themselves on the public stage, the slavering dogs are out for the juicy bits. It is rather revolting, imo.
It is definitely revolting; sometimes we're just not a very nice species. The media will be ecstatic & will no doubt spin this for weeks.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)