Conservative US influencer Candace Owens is barred from New Zealand weeks after a ban from Australia

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************* US influencer Candace Owens is barred from New Zealand weeks after a ban from Australia

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The U.S. ************* political commentor Candace Owens was refused a visa to enter New Zealand for a speaking engagement because she had been banned from another country, immigration officials said Thursday.

News of the ruling came weeks after neighboring Australia also rejected her visa request, citing remarks in which she denied ***** medical experimentation on Jews in concentration camps during World War II.

Owens is scheduled to speak at a series of events in several *********** cities and in Auckland, New Zealand, in February and March next year. Tickets remain on ***** and there is no acknowledgement on the promoter’s website that she has been refused entry to both countries.

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The commentator, who has more than 3 million followers on

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, is accused by her detractors of

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and antisemitism and has

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opposing ****** Lives Matter, feminism, vaccines and immigration.

In March, Owens said she had parted ways with the Daily Wire, on which

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, after clashes with its founders over her remarks about Jews and her opposition to U.S. military support for *******. She was widely criticized for comments in a

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video in July that minimized the Holocaust.

Owens had promised *********** and New Zealand audiences a discussion of free speech and her ********** ****** when she announced the speaking tour in August.

But *********** officials banned her from the country in October, with Immigration Minister Tony Burke telling reporters Owens “has the capacity to incite discord in almost every direction,” citing her remarks about the Holocaust and about Muslims.

“Australia’s national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else,” Burke said. *********** ******* groups had urged officials to bar her from the country.

New Zealand officials did not refer to Owens’ political views in a statement on Thursday.

She was refused an entertainer’s work permit for New Zealand on the ground that visas legally cannot be granted to those who have been excluded from another country, said Jock Gilray, a spokesperson for the immigration agency.

The Australia-based promoter, Rocksman, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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