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New Zealand Customs is to return seized euthanasia equipment confiscated from controversial Australian campaigner Philip Nitschke.
Dr Nitschke, known as Dr Death, was held up for more than two hours after flying into Auckland International Airport two weeks ago.
Copies of his book The Peaceful Pill Handbook and equipment, including a coffee pot used to demonstrate how to mix lethal barbiturate cocktails, were confiscated.
The two confiscated copies of the New Zealand edition of the banned Peaceful Pill Handbook had been forwarded to the office of the chief censor Bill Hastings, a statement from the euthanasia lobby group Exit International said.
Dr Nitschke, who is in San Diego, said he was glad common sense had finally prevailed.
He said the seizure had caused considerable inconvenience and made the four workshops he ran in the country "less effective".
- NZPA
