(AAP) A Sydney Islamic State member whose online martyrdom posts included Canberra’s Parliament House flying a black flag says he was naive and brainwashed.
“I have completely renounced my membership of IS and any other terrorist organisation,” Youssef Uweinat told the NSW Supreme Court on Friday.
“I feel everything I said was false and wrong.”
The 23-year-old has pleaded guilty to being a member of IS knowing it was a terrorist organisation, between June and December 2019.
He also admitted advocating the doing of a terrorist act, being reckless as to whether another person will engage in a terrorist act, between July and December 2019.
