The three lawmakers, whose record suspensions last up to three weeks, drew global attention last year when they performed the ...

New Zealand legislators have voted to suspend three MPs who performed a Maori haka in the House to protest against a ...

New Zealand's parliament on Thursday handed record-long suspensions to three Indigenous Maori lawmakers who last year staged a protest haka on the debating floor.

Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke received a seven-day ban and her colleagues from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, are barred for 21 days.

New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record suspensions from parliament for three politicians who performed a Maori haka to protest over a proposed law. Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke received a ...

Three days had been the longest ban for a lawmaker from New Zealand’s Parliament before. The lawmakers from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori Party, performed the haka, a chanting dance of challenge ...

Maori Party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer were each banned for 21 days, while Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, the youngest serving MP in New Zealand, received a seven-day suspension.

The harsh penalty was handed down to three members of the opposition who said they were voicing their community’s displeasure with proposed legislation.

New Zealand legislators have voted to suspend ... A report from the privileges committee said that while both haka and Maori ceremonial dance and song are not uncommon in parliament, members ...

haka are often used as a kind of ceremonial war dance or challenge to authority. New Zealand's foreign affairs minister Winston Peters earlier mocked Waititi for his traditional full-face Maori ...