Returned ISIS wife Mariam Raad pleads guilty to entering terrorist-controlled region

(ABC-Australia) A woman who returned to Australia from Syria in 2022 has pleaded guilty to willingly entering a region controlled by a terrorist organisation.

So-called ISIS bride Mariam Raad, 32, was arrested in January 2023 following a joint investigation between NSW Police and the Australian Federal Police.

She was charged with entering or remaining in an area controlled by the Islamic State group.

Raad, from Young in southern NSW, appeared via video link in Goulburn Local Court on Wednesday wearing a maroon headscarf and black-rimmed glasses.

She did not speak during the brief proceedings.

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