(News.com.au) A Melbourne man accused of being an Islamic State terrorist has been extradited to Victoria. Neil Prakash, 31, was also charged with six offences including engaging in hostile activity in a foreign state, being a member of a terrorist organisation and […]
(NCA NewsWire) A man accused of serious terrorism offences has been arrested by the Australian Federal Police after being extradited from Turkey. Neil Prakash, 31, was arrested and flown to Australia on a chartered flight, arriving in Darwin on Friday, after being […]
(Stuff) New Zealand’s terrorism threat level has been dropped from “medium” to “low,” meaning a terror attack is now deemed “a realistic possibility” instead of “feasible and could well occur.” Security Intelligence Service (SIS) director-general Rebecca Kitteridge announced the change on Wednesday […]
(NCA NewsWire) Australia’s terrorism threat level has been lowered for the first time in close to a decade, but one of the nation’s top spies has warned an attack could still occur in the next 12 months. Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation […]
(Age) The planned return of Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash to face charges in Australia has been hailed as an “impressive accomplishment” by Australian authorities after years of diplomatic wrangling. Prakash, who has been described as the “most important and the most […]
(NCA NewsWire) A controversial law that aims to keep terrorists behind bars after the completion of their prison sentences is under review. On Monday the independent national security legislation monitor (INSLM), Grant Donaldson SC, continued his assessment of Division 105A of the […]
(Stuff) An Auckland man told a person on social media he wanted to kill “non-Muslims” and began planning a terror attack in New Zealand, Stuff can now report. The 20-year-old appeared at the High Court at Auckland on Wednesday, where he admitted […]
(Stuff) An Auckland man has admitted threatening to kill “non-Muslims” and distributing an Isis video. The 20-year-old appeared at the High Court at Auckland on Wednesday, where he admitted threatening to kill, two charges of distributing objectionable publications and six counts of […]
(NCA NewsWire) The four “ISIS brides” repatriated to Australia alongside their children could be subjected to control orders, with the matter under investigation. The Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw told senate estimates there was also an active investigation into whether the […]
(Herald Sun) A Muslim student has been left with “painful psychological and mental trauma” after an offensive cartoon about the Prophet Muhammad was shown in a year 11 media class. A teacher at Mount Ridley College in Craigieburn played an “explicit and […]
(AAP) An imam who claimed a Melbourne man he had never met was an “ISIS promoter” has been ordered to pay $20,000 in aggravated damages. Imam Mohammad Tawhidi made the claims on social media, where he has hundreds of thousands of followers. […]
(AAP) The impending resettlement of more relatives of Islamic State fighters has reared as a Victorian election issue, with the state opposition objecting. A group of 17 Australian women and children who have been in the al-Roj camp in Syria since the […]
(NCA NewsWire) An emotional man has been reunited with his daughter and grandchildren as four families returned home to Australia after being taken from a camp for Islamic State families in Syria. Seventeen people — four women and 13 children — touched […]
(ABC-Australia) The first group of Australian women and children held in a detention camp in north-east Syria since the fall of the Islamic State (IS) group in 2019 is en route to Sydney. The ABC can reveal four women and 13 children […]
(AAP) Nineteen jailed terrorists are due for release from custody in Australia in the next five years. The latest annual report by the Australian Federal Police noted there were 55 people serving jail time for terrorism offences. The AFP monitors what are […]
(ABC-Australia) A 15-year-old Adelaide schoolboy will confess to possessing “extremely depraved” extremist material and coaching others online about how to make bombs, a court has heard. Prosecutors have asked the South Australian Youth Court to sentence the boy, who cannot be named […]
(Radio NZ) The Christchurch mosque shooter’s designation as a terrorist entity would be less likely to be revoked or automatically expire under proposed new law changes. Removal of the designation would allow people to legally provide him with support, including funding. As […]
(Daily Telegraph) A convicted terrorist who threatened to behead a cop and once declared he was “at war” with Australia will walk free from a NSW prison this week, five years after he was jailed for an Islamic State-inspired knife attack in […]
(Newshub) A Kiwi Iranian activist says the deadly fight for freedom in Iran hasn’t received the Western attention it deserves — believing the fear of being Islamophobic is silencing Western feminists. Iranians across the world are calling for world leaders, including New […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Deradicalisation experts have backed the Albanese government’s plan to rescue dozens of Australian relatives of former Islamic State fighters from Syria, even as the Coalition said it feared the repatriation effort would put Australian lives at risk. About 20 […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Australia is preparing to overturn its policy of more than three years and launch a mission to repatriate dozens of women and children, the family members of former Islamic State fighters who have been languishing for years in squalid […]
(NCA NewsWire) Lawyers for Mustafa Dirani have asked a jury to put his “extreme beliefs” aside in judging if he was part of a terrorist conspiracy that led to police accountant Curtis Cheng’s death. Mr Cheng was gunned down outside the Parramatta […]
(NCA NewsWire) A man accused of conspiring with others in the lead-up to the shooting of police accountant Curtis Cheng faced trial before the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday. Mustafa Dirani is alleged to have been one of those who assisted 15-year-old […]
(NCA NewsWire) The jury has been discharged in the trial of a Sydney man accused of playing a role in the terrorist plot which resulted in the shooting of police employee Curtis Cheng. Mustafa Dirani was set to stand trial in the […]
(NCA NewsWire) A Sydney man has been convicted of leading a terrorist group that planned to attack the city’s navy base, a courthouse, the Mardi Gras parade and Israeli embassy. Hamdi Alqudsi, 48, faced the NSW Supreme Court for a trial after […]
(Radio NZ) Ahamed Samsudeen’s friends called him the “lone wolf” attacker and knew he was under heavy surveillance, an Auckland bar owner claims. Eight people were injured at Countdown in LynnMall last September before Ahamed Samsudeen was shot dead by police who […]
(Radio NZ) A year ago today, eight shoppers were injured in a stabbing frenzy at LynnMall’s supermarket. Gill Bonnett looks back at what drove Ahamed Samsudeen to carry out New Zealand’s second terrorist attack in three years. “Since I was a child, […]
(Radio NZ) The government is considering how it can change the law to deport people who pose a threat to national security. This weekend marks a year since Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen walked into a supermarket in Auckland and attacked shoppers with […]
(AAP) A Melbourne woman who tried to recruit extremists to join Islamic State will be released from prison this week, but her freedom will be limited. Hadashah Sa’Adat Khan tried to recruit an American teen to join the terrorist organisation when she […]
(Brisbane Times) An Australian man charged with terrorism offences allegedly cut off the tracking device he had been ordered to wear and booked a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia to fly out that night. Omar Saghir, 40, was arrested in July 2021 […]
(Brisbane Times) An Australian man already accused of funding an overseas fighter to travel to [Syria] to join terrorist groups battling government forces has also been charged with advocating for a terrorism act. Omar Saghir, 40, was arrested on July 16, 2021, […]
(NCA NewsWire) The alleged leader of a Sydney-based terrorist group who is accused of using a code in the form of a soccer team told one man during a phone call that he was “in charge of the whole thing,” a court […]
(NCA NewsWire) Extensive phone taps played to a court have revealed how the alleged leader of a Sydney-based terrorist group used a code in the form of an “A-League soccer team” to discuss alleged plans to send men to Syria to fight […]
(NCA NewsWire) Extensive phone taps allegedly reveal the leader of a terrorist group plotted to fly the Islamic State flag on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and target international tourists in attacks, a court has heard. Hamdi Alqudsi, 48, faced the […]
(NCA NewsWire) A Sydney man is accused of leading a “terrorist group” called the Shura, which allegedly made plans to attack the city’s navy base, a courthouse, the Mardi Gras parade and Israeli embassy, a court has been told. Hamdi Alqudsi, 48, […]
(NCA NewsWire) An Islamic State-inspired fanatic known for cruel attacks on fellow inmates has had his sentence cut after a court was found to have made errors when sentencing him. But Bourhan Hraichie, 25, whose crimes include carving an IS slogan into […]
(NCA NewsWire) A man who firebombed a mosque and then weeks later was plotting to behead civilians on Christmas Day at an iconic Melbourne location has had his jail time cut. Ahmed Mohamed was found guilty of conspiring “in preparation for a […]
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(AAP) The Law Council of Australia has argued that it is a slippery slope to detain people because they may commit a future offence under current terrorism laws. Council president Tass Liveris told an inquiry into the laws that it was impossible […]
(AAP) Concerns have been raised over laws that allow for convicted terrorists to be detained after they have served their sentence if they are deemed to be at risk of reoffending. Since 2016, the Commonwealth Criminal Code has had a scheme for […]
(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 […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) A High Court decision striking down a key plank of the federal government’s citizenship-stripping powers could pave the way for a small number of dual nationals accused of terrorist activities to appeal against the cancellation of their Australian status […]
(ABC-Australia) A key plank of the federal government’s foreign fighter laws has been struck down by the High Court, with the nation’s top judges ruling that suspected terrorists cannot be stripped of their citizenship by the home affairs minister. The case before […]
(Radio NZ) The inquiry into the LynnMall stabbings is not expected to finalise its report until the end of August. Ahamed Samsudeen injured eight people in a supermarket before being shot dead by police last September. The Independent Police Conduct Authority said […]
(Stuff) A woman has won the right to have about $215,000 paid to her as part of her marriage contract from the United Arab Emirates. It was the first time a case had come before the courts relating to the payment of […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Members of the Alameddine crime network downloaded and watched Islamic State videos, according to police information tendered to court which also claim members involved in the group’s “dial-a-dealer” operation were part of a sub-gang calling themselves “Ready 4 War.” […]
(Radio NZ) Newly released documents reveal the LynnMall knife attacker was assaulted twice in prison by other inmates, and blamed for starting a third fight. A Muslim leader says the fact this is only coming to light now shows how one-sided the […]
(Stuff) A Wellington dentist who has to pay his ex-wife $212,095 under Sharia law after their overseas divorce should not have to under New Zealand laws, his lawyer says. The landmark case being heard at the High Court in Wellington on Thursday […]
(Stuff) The first New Zealand case of a woman seeking the return of a $212,095 dower from her ex-husband after being divorced in an overseas court has begun in Wellington. The pair married in the United Arab Emirates, under Islamic or Sharia […]
(Stuff) An Auckland man charged with threatening to kill “non-Muslims” has been declined bail and will remain in custody until a future court date. The 20-year-old, who has interim name suppression, was charged in September days after the LynnMall terror attack. He […]
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