Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki has been charged with three counts of inciting racial disharmony over June comments calling for Hindu, Sikh and Muslim communities to be removed from New Zealand.
Police served a summons at his home on Thursday, which he livestreamed. He is due in Manukau District Court at 9am on 19 October.
Tamaki denies threatening anyone or advocating violence, saying he challenged religious beliefs and leaders rather than people by race, and called it the “beginning of the end of free speech in NZ”.
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