Sydney man aligned with Islamic State allegedly breaches federal orders

A Sydney man aligned to the Islamic State group has been charged with breaching federal orders after he allegedly accessed online material supporting the carrying out of executions, beheadings and torture.

Radwan Dakkak, 25, was arrested in July 2019 and pleaded guilty in December last year to two counts of associating with a terrorist organisation.

He was released from prison on New Year’s Day, with Federal Court of Australia Control Orders prohibiting him from a range of activities including accessing social media or using encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram or WhatsApp.

The order also restricted him from making statements about terrorist activity, subjected him to a daily curfew and prevented him from leaving NSW.

Members of the Australian Federal Police High Risk Terrorist Offenders team arrested him at his north-west Sydney home in Denistone this morning.

AFP Acting Commander Alex Nicolson said no specific or impending threat to the community was identified.

“The man has an extremist ideology aligned to the ISIS terror network,” he said.

“This person’s Control Order had controls that put in place restrictions on his movement, associations with other people, a curfew and accessing particular material online.”

“With our continued monitoring of his Control Order and his behaviour we were able to act quickly … before it escalated into anything else.”

Dakkak’s matter was in Paramatta Local Court today after he was charged with three counts of contravening a Federal Court of Australia Control Order.

He did not appear in court and his case is scheduled to be heard in March.

Source: ABC News