(AAP) The federal government is demanding answers after the release from custody of a Victorian nurse who supported Chechen fighters on the frontline against the Assad regime in Syria.
Adam Brookman, 45, had pleaded guilty to performing acts in support or promotion of the commission of an offence under foreign incursion laws.
Brookman, a trained nurse who once worked as a paramedic for Ambulance Victoria, went to Syria in 2014, telling police he intended to use his healthcare experience to help the local Muslim community.
Justice Jane Dixon on Wednesday in Victoria’s Supreme Court sentenced him to a total of six years and eight months in prison, with a non-parole period set for five years.
