Accused of Theft: New Zealand Congresswoman Resigns New Zealand's new member of parliament has resigned due to allegations that she has...
Accused of Theft: New Zealand Congresswoman Resigns
New Zealand's new member of parliament has resigned due to allegations that she has carried away, an allegation that the police are investigating.
It is alleged that Golriz Ghahraman, a member of the Green Party, has shoplifted three times from clothing stores with two relatives - one in Auckland and the other in Wellington.
The former lawyer at the United Nations Human Rights Commission made history in 2017 as the first female refugee to join the government.
She once held the position of the legal department of her party.
However, she said that the pressure of her work made her do something that was not her character.
"I have shamed many people, so I apologize to them," she said.
Miss Ghahraman escaped from Iran when she was a child with her family, who were granted political asylum in New Zealand.
Her resignation on Tuesday came after CCTB footage showed her allegedly taking a woman's handbag from an Auckland shopping mall.
The 42-year-old MP has never been found guilty of any crime.
Reacting to her resignation, one of her party leaders, James Shaw, said Miss Ghahraman had faced "horrendous threats of harassment, beatings and death since she was elected as an MP". ".