The Christchurch mosque shooter is appealing his convictions and sentence of life in prison without parole.
Australian Brenton Tarrant is currently serving a life sentence for murdering 51 people and attempting to murder 40 others at two Christchurch mosques on March 15 2019.
He was also convicted in March 2020 for committing a terrorism offence.
The Court of Appeal confirmed to Newshub Tarrant has filed an appeal for both his convictions and his sentence.
The Wellington Court of Appeal has confirmed their appeal has been made - and that will now go before a court of appeal hearing. There a panel will hear an argument from him or his lawyers.
The Court of Appeal said no hearing date has been set yet.
Tarrant was sentenced in Christchurch in August 2020 after pleading guilty to all 92 charges in 2021. It was the first time a sentence of life in prison without parole has been passed down in New Zealand.
He has been in jail at Paremoremo's Auckland Prison ever since, living in solitary confinement.
Tarrant stormed two mosques in Christchurch armed with military-style semi-automatics, indiscriminately shooting at Muslims gathered for Friday prayers.
Six days after the Christchurch terror attack in 2019, the Government announced a ban on all military-style semi-automatics (MSSA) and assault rifles, as well as related parts used to convert guns into MSSAs and all high-capacity magazines.
A buyback scheme at a cost of more than $100 million followed, along with harsher penalties for possessing a gun without a licence and a promise to establish a firearms register from June 2023 though it will not be fully implemented until 2028.
It also started a global political summit initiated by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online.
Whānau of survivors and victims of the Christchurch mosque attack told a Royal Commission of Inquiry they haven't felt safe since March 15 - whether that is while praying at the masjid, or going about their daily lives.
The families and victims received the report into the attack in 2020 and Ardern has apologised for several failures identified in the report.
"Going forward, we need to ensure an adequate focus of resources on the range of threats New Zealand faces and enhance our security and intelligence, and social cohesion work accordingly," Ardern said.
The Commissioners were tasked with analysing 1168 submissions to the inquiry - 1123 from people and 44 from organisations. Among those who submitted included affected whānau, survivors, and witnesses of the mosque attack.
One affected whānau member who lost their younger brother told the inquiry the mosque attack was the hardest thing they'd had to go through.
"The thought of someone even touching him, let alone killing him, drives me crazy. He was so young, his future has been unjustly taken from him and from all his family and friends who wanted to share that future with him."
Another submitter, a survivor, detailed how they set up three different beds at night so "I have one in three chances of being shot".
"If someone comes to kill [me] if I'm sleeping I could probably survive this way," the survivor said.
"If someone was to come now I can't run away, my leg is gone."
The survivor also said they no longer trust the system.
