A woman charged with being a member of ISIS after returning to Australia has made a powerful statement in court.
A woman charged with being a member of ISIS after returning to Australia “renounces violent jihad”, a court has been told.
Rayann El Houli, 34, was charged with being a member of a terrorist organisation and entering a declared conflict zone last week, eight months after she returned to Australia from a camp in Syria.
She appeared it the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Monday morning for a bail application.
Addressing the court, her lawyer Peter Morrissey SC said he wanted it placed on the record that Ms El Houli had renounced “ISIS and violent jihad”.
“She wants nothing to do with it not now directly or indirectly or in the future,” he said.
“Not for herself, not for the people she loves and specifically not for her children.”
Police allege Ms El Houli travelled to the Middle East between 2013 and 2014 to join ISIS before she was detained by Kurdish forces in a displaced persons camp in March 2019 following ISIS’ collapse.
The mother of four returned to Australia on September 25 last year.
The hearing continues.
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