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Legal

Islamic State devotee who helped wannabe terrorist could be free in months

June 10, 2022 Adam Cooper and Erin Pearson  

(Age) A radicalised young Melbourne woman who helped a wannabe terrorist in his plan to fight for Islamic State could be free from prison within three months despite not having renounced her past devotion to an extreme ideology. Hadashah Sa’adat Khan was […]

Health & Medicine

Nurse jailed after siding with Islamists back in court over TikTok use

December 20, 2021 Erin Pearson and Adam Cooper  

(Age) A Melbourne nurse, who was sent to prison after he helped Syrian rebels, faces a string of new federal charges, including allegations he accessed social media sites TikTok and Facebook and viewed images of guns and extreme sexual violence in breach […]

Legal

Convicted terrorist admits stabbing inmate, being Islamic State member

June 29, 2021 Erin Pearson  

(Age) A convicted terrorist serving 42 years in prison for an attack on her Melbourne homestay host is facing more time behind bars after pleading guilty to stabbing a fellow inmate while in custody and being a member of Islamic State. Bangladeshi […]

Law Enforcement

‘Premeditated’: Coroner rules 2018 Bourke Street attack an act of terrorism

June 28, 2021 Erin Pearson  

(Age) Every time terrorism survivor Rod Patterson closes his eyes, the memory of the 2018 Bourke Street attack is still vivid. Mr Patterson was stabbed to the head as he ran to help someone he thought was the victim of a car […]

Legal

‘Love you to infinity and beyond’: Jailhouse letters revealed as alleged terrorism sympathiser fights for freedom

February 3, 2021 Erin Pearson  

(Age) Secret jailhouse letters traded between a convicted terrorist and a Melbourne woman accused of recruiting for Islamic State have been read aloud in court as one of the women fights to be released back into the community. Hadashah Sa’adat Khan, 23, […]

Legal

How Melbourne teenager Ali Khalif Shire Ali became a terror plotter

November 29, 2019 Erin Pearson  

(Age) In an unassuming family home in the heart of Werribee, a 16-year-old boy watched the atrocities of Islamic State with his brother for up to three hours each night. Videos of beheadings and bloody executions in the Middle East consumed his […]

Legal

Melbourne terror plotter reveals brother’s death made him renounce IS

November 28, 2019 Erin Pearson  

(Age) A failed Melbourne terrorist says the death of his terrorist brother in the Bourke Street attack was the “icing on the cake” in realising his plan to kill innocent people at Federation Square was wrong all along. New Year’s Eve terror […]

Academics & Education

Imams act to stop radicalisation as terror plotters’ Swinburne link revealed

April 30, 2019 Erin Pearson and Paul Sakkal  

(Age) Victoria’s Islamic leaders are dispatching moderate preachers to universities as it emerges a suspected ringleader in Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday terror attack studied at the same Melbourne university as two other terrorists. Sri Lankan suicide bomber Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed was […]

Government & Politics

Divide between government and Islamic leaders deepens over Bourke Street attacker

November 13, 2018 Erin Pearson and Liam Mannix  

(Age) One of Victoria’s largest Islamic youth centres has rejected suggestions it is linked to terrorism after it was revealed the Bourke Street attacker was a regular visitor. Hume Islamic Youth Centre spokesman Mustafa Abu Yusuf told the Age the centre’s open-door […]

Clothing

Terror accused’s wife banned from wearing niqab in court

July 17, 2018 Erin Pearson  

(Age) A Supreme Court judge has banned the wife of an accused terrorist from wearing a niqab veil in the court’s public gallery. The woman, who is married to a man accused of plotting a Christmas Day terrorist attack at Melbourne landmarks, […]

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