A Melbourne man has been been charged with possessing violent extremist material, after he was arrested at the airport ahead of a scheduled flight to the Middle East.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police allege the 30-year-old man, from Roxburgh Park in Melbourne’s outer-north, had been part of a chat with a group of other men who police allege have been sharing violent extremist material.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We allege this individual was part of a dedicated online network operating within Australia, motivated by sharing and distributing violent extremist material, including ISIS propaganda,” said Australian Federal Police (AFP) commander Paula Hudson.<\/p>\n
The man was arrested at Melbourne’s international airport overnight.<\/p>\n
Police also allege that after his arrest, the man refused to let authorities access his electronic devices when presented with a court order.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has been charged with possessing violent extremist material, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, and for refusing access to devices.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He is expected to face court later today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old is the sixth Victorian man in recent months to be charged by the AFP’s National Security Investigations team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Commander Hudson said Australian authorities were committed to disrupting online extremism.<\/p>\n
“Let me be extremely clear \u2014 this harmful content holds no place in our society,” she said.<\/p>\n
“The sharing and distribution of extremist material, including images and videos of graphic acts of violence such as beheadings, shootings, bombings, rape and violent assaults is unacceptable in our community.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis disruption should serve as another, serious warning to those fuelling dangerous, violent extremist content online.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Melbourne man has been been charged with possessing violent extremist material, after he was arrested at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,61165,459852,44,5316,355661],"class_list":["post-890195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-federal-police","tag-isis-material","tag-news","tag-terrorism","tag-violent-extremist-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}