Shaw lied about Ghahraman

James Shaw in a speech to the NZ Institute of International Affairs in May said:

Members of this audience may be interested to know that one of those
candidates, Golriz Ghahraman, is, at number ten on the list, almost certain to
become the first Member of Parliament who started her life in New Zealand as
a refugee.

Having fled Iran in 1990 as a child, Golriz is now a human rights lawyer who
worked as a prosecutor at the United Nations tribunals for Rwanda and the
former Yugoslavia. She also worked on the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia.

So either Shaw was misled or lied to by Ghahraman or Shaw himself lied.

This is no longer an issue just for Ghanraman. It is now an issue for the entire Greens and Shaw. Did she mislead them or did they mislead us?

She claims she never saw her web page that the Greens published. I doubt this having worked in Parliament. Time for them to come clean.

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