Supporters have turned up in force at court as conspiracy theorist Liz Gunn proclaimed her innocence both outside and inside the courtroom.
The former broadcaster appeared before a judge in Manukau District Court after she was arrested at Auckland Airport last month.
Gunn, 63, who appeared under the name Elizabeth Jane Cooney, and cameraman Jonathan Clark, who's 49, are charged with wilful trespass and resisting arrest.
Gunn is additionally charged with assault.
The pair were at the airport to film an arriving family.
Auckland Airport requires media to seek clearance before any filming.
Police said after the incident in late February they were called to the international terminal at about 7.15pm after a report of an assault.
Outside court on Thursday, Gunn was wearing an arm brace and claimed it was she who was assaulted.
"I have not assaulted anyone," she said.
She said her doctor was "horrified" at her injury and she was still in a lot of pain.
"He was a thug, the kind of man my father abhorred in Hitler's Germany," Gunn said.
She said she was "completely innocent" and at the airport with a camera to greet friends like many other people, just with "a slightly larger camera".
There were more supporters for Gunn and Clark than the courtroom would fit and limited numbers of them had to be chosen to be inside during their hearings.
Gunn entered not guilty pleas to the three charges and has been remanded on bail until June 7.
She asked Judge Richard McIlraith if there was a way she could obtain security camera footage from the airport "in the name of justice".
Gunn claimed the footage was being suppressed.
Judge McIlraith said that was a matter for her lawyer, Jeremy Bioletti, for a case review hearing.
Clark pleaded not guilty to his two charges and has been remanded on bail to the same date in June.
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