Human rights - Afghanistan

Date: 10 April 2009

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-152

Description: Shows New Zealand SAS soldiers in Afghanistan. An Afghan man holds up a placard thanking the Kiwis for defending their man rights. The placard initially said human but the 'hu' were crossed out. Behind the Afghan man standing woman wearing a full burqa. Refers to the New Zealand Special Air Service (SAS) being deployed in Afghanistan. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - MONDAY CARTOON - 1304A? CARTOON 157.2mm x 129.5mm Pls correct & send to MediaGrid, GNZHARTPIX [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s).

Date: 2009

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0013285

Description: Shows New Zealand SAS soliders in Afghanistan. An Afghan man holds up a placard thanking the Kiwis for defending their man rights. The placard initially said human but the 'hu' were crossed out. Behind the Afghan man standing woman wearing a full burqa. Refers to the New Zealand Speical Air Service (SAS) being deployed in Afghanistan. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

By: Dominion post (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0017581

Description: An old soldier wearing all his medals attends a memorial service on ANZAC day when suddenly his umbrella is wrecked by a blast of icy wind. Text reads 'SAS allegations'. Context - over ANZAC Day weekend 2011 journalist Jon Stephenson revealed on TVNZ's Marae programme that he has uncovered more details about the Special Forces work in Afghanistan. "My sources in Afghanistan, and other places, are very, very clear we are very involved in arresting prisoners and transferring those prisoners to Afghans, who are likely to torture those prisoners," he told Marae. New Zealand's defence force rules, and international laws, say troops cannot hand over prisoners to another country if there is evidence they will be tortured or mistreated. But Stephenson said since 2001 the SAS has been forced to ignore these rules. "New Zealand and New Zealand soldiers have been involved, some would say complicit in human rights abuses in Afghanistan since our first deployment began in 2001, and certainly continuing today." (TVNZ 23 April 2011 and Scoop 25 April 2011) Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

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

By: Twitter Inc (Firm); Facebook (Firm); Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0025694

Description: Under the caption 'NZDF surveillance photo showing a typical editorial meeting of New Zealand journalists', Che Guevara, Mao Tse Tung, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, a 'gormless moron', a 'bitch from hell' and other sinister types are grouped. They are journalists as conceived by the New Zealand Defence Force. Accompanying note from cartoonist states: 'An odd time we live in when it needs to be stated that journalists are not the enemy of the NZ military. Who is the "subversive" party in all this? Who is subverting a society based on free speech?' In July 2013 a New Zealand journalist, Jon Stephenson, brought a defamation case against illegal surveillance by the New Zealand Defence Force who listed him as 'subversive' after he reported unfavourably on the treament of prisoners by the Force in Afghanistan. The Defence Force used the services of the United States National Security Agency for the spying. Published on Martin Doyle's cartoon Facebook site (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Martin-Doyle/607865899238901?ref=hl) and Twitter (Twitter@Mart_cartoons) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).