31 Jan 2022

Pregnant journalist Charlotte Bellis desperate to get MIQ in NZ

From First Up, 5:46 am on 31 January 2022

Pregnant New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis is having to take the word of the Taliban that she will be safe in Afghanistan after being denied a spot in MIQ. Bellis says she and her photographer partner, Jim Huylebroek, submitted 59 documents in their application to gain an emergency MIQ spot but were told they hadn't provided enough evidence to meet the threshold. She says she feels let down by her home country. Joining Nathan Rarere from El Salvador is Charlotte Bellis's lawyer, Tudor Clee.