Terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika to stay in jail under continuing detention order, despite finishing sentence
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Abdul Nacer Benbrika will remain behind bars until 2023.
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A convicted terrorist who once espoused the virtues of Osama Bin Laden will stay in an Australian prison after Victoria s Supreme Court deemed him too risky to release.
Key points:
Abdul Nacer Benbrika was arrested in 2005 for his involvement in a terror cell
A court order means he won t be released before 2023, despite completing his original sentence
His lawyers argue the order is based on an unconstitutional law, and could appeal
Christchurch massacre: an Australian crime
Husna Ahmed was a wife and mother who migrated from Bangladesh to New Zealand, where she used to teach children and help to care for the elderly at her local mosque.
When the Australian terrorist began to slaughter the fellow members of her congregation at the Masjid Al Noor last year, she ushered the other women and children safely towards a side exit, before returning in search of her husband, who has been a paraplegic since a hit-and-run accident six years earlier.
“
Ko tō tātou kāinga tēnei” – a title that translates to “This is our home” – the report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Terrorist Attack on Christchurch Mosques on March 15, 2019, opens by acknowledging Ahmed’s name, along with those of the other 50