A New Zealand man was jailed for 21 months on Tuesday for distributing gruesome livestream video of the Christchurch mosque attacks that killed 51 Muslim worshippers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Philip Arps, 44, was arrested in Christchurch four days after alleged gunman Brenton Tarrant\u2019s March 15 rampage at two mosques in the South Island city resulted in the worst massacre in modern New Zealand history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arps pleaded guilty to two charges of distributing objectionable material for sharing footage that was livestreamed to social media during the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christchurch District Court heard Arps distributed the raw footage to about 30 people and had another version that was modified to include crosshairs and a \u201ckill count\u201d, the New Zealand Herald reported.\u201cThis was in effect a hate crime against the Muslim community,\u201d judge Stephen O\u2019Driscoll said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said it was \u201cparticularly cruel\u201d to share the video in the days after the attacks, when relatives were still waiting to hear news of their loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O\u2019Driscoll found that Arps had set out to \u201cglorify\u201d the deaths of Muslims and any punishment other than imprisonment was inappropriate, Radio New Zealand reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New Zealand\u2019s chief censor David Shanks classified the video from the mosque shooting as objectionable content soon after the shooting, making sharing the footage a crime punishable by up to 14 years in jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shanks also outlawed publication of the rambling \u201cmanifesto\u201d the shooter posted online before the attacks, saying it was intended to inspire \u201cmurder and terrorism\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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