The three lawmakers, whose record suspensions last up to three weeks, drew global attention last year when they performed the ceremonial dance to protest a contentious bill.

New Zealand's parliament agreed on historically lengthy suspensions for three Indigenous lawmakers who last year performed a haka, a traditional Maori dance, disrupting the reading of a controversial bill.

New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law. Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke on