Jones, Richard Rhys, 1960-

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0025585

Description: Depicts New Zealand Journalist Jon Stephenson standing in front of a pile of bodies. Beside him is Lieutenant General Rhys Jones. Refers to media statement made by Jones about Stephenson's Metro article on the role of the Special Air Service unit in the war in Afghanistan, and allegations that SAS knew they were handing Afhgan detainees on to US troops and Afghan authorities to be tortured. Jones claimed that Stephenson had never met an army source quoted in the article (see NZ Herald 20 July 2013). Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'The treatment of New Zealand's award-winning journalist Jon Stephenson by the Defence Force calls into question just what qualities our society holds dear'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Slane, Christopher, 1957-: Digital cartoons published in the Listener, New Zealand Herald, or New Zealand Farmers' Weekly

By: Listener (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0025773

Description: Depicts a New Zealand Army tank firing wildly as it rolls through a desert landscape. Refers to evidence which has emerged in the defamation case bought by freelance Journalist Jon Stephenson against the Chief of the Defence Force General Rhys Jones. Stephenson has had his movements and telephone calls monitored by the New Zealand Army. Former SAS Head Colonel Chris Parsons admitted that he had ordered his men to be on the lookout for Stephenson in Afghanistan in 2010. It was also revealed that a security manual used by the Defence Force for 10 years gave instructions that some investigative journalists should be seen as threats to national security (see TV3 News 30 July 2013. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).