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Far right wins Austria election, boosting European right-wing surge
- Freedom Party (FPO) seen beating conservatives
- Far-right figure could become chancellor if FPO win is confirmed
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Australia imposes fresh sanctions on Hamas-linked individuals and groups
By Richard Wood, 11:17am Jan 23, 2024
Foreign Minister Penny Wong today announced Australia was imposing further counter-terrorism financing sanctions on 12 persons and three organisations linked to Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The individuals include Hamas leaders, financial facilitators, and persons who have provided training to terrorists, as well as three entities that have helped in the transfer funds to Hamas.
“This action is concurrent with further sanctions imposed on Hamas-linked targets by the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union,” Wong said.
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong announced the sanctions on individuals and organisations linked to Hamas this morning. (Nine)
The federal government says the individuals and entities have supported and helped facilitate terrorism.
Australia has already imposed sanctions on Hamas, Hizbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and a further 17 persons and seven organisations with links to these groups.
Once listed for sanctions, it is a criminal offence to use or deal with the person or entity’s assets, or to make assets available to them.
Those who breach the measures can face penalties of up to 10 years’ imprisonment and/or heavy fines.
The US yesterday announced sanctions against a network of Hamas-affiliated financial exchanges in Gaza, including financial facilitators that transferred funds through cryptocurrency from Iran to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
The Western sanctions come as Israel’s bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip continues, killing 25,000 Palestinians so far, according to the Gaza Strip Healthy Ministry, and Iranian-backed militias in Iraq launch regular strikes against bases housing US forces in Iraq and Syria.
Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters train in a village in southern Lebanon. The group is among organisations targeted by a new round of Australian sanctions. (AP)
In other news, the US and British militaries bombed multiple sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Monday, the second time the two allies have conducted coordinated retaliatory strikes on an array of the rebels’ missile-launching capabilities, several US officials said.
According to officials, the US and UK used warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets to take out Houthi missile storage sites and launchers.
- With Associated Press
Terror accused released despite allegedly breaching bail conditions
By Rex Martinich AAP, 4:35pm Jan 17, 2021
A man accused of terrorism-related offences will again be granted bail despite facing allegation that he breached the conditions of his release.
Ahmed Luqman Talib was arrested by the Australian Federal Police in Victoria in March 2021, then aged 31, and extradited to Queensland.
Talib was accused of helping an aspiring foreign fighter arrange to travel to Syria to join a terrorist group in conflict with that nation’s government between September 1, 2013 and October 1, 2020.
Talib was released on bail in the Brisbane District Court today. (Toby Crockford)
Talib, who was born in the United Kingdom and is an Australian citizen, lived in south-east Queensland around the time of the alleged offending.
Barrister Tim Ryan applied for Talib’s bail in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Wednesday and said his client had four grounds by which to argue his further detention was not justified.
“The first of these is the alleged breaches of bail conditions are minor,” Ryan said.
Talib did not attend court or appear by videolink.
Ryan said Talib had been accused of not charging his ankle monitoring bracelet on two occasions for a total of two hours.
“There is no suggestion the device he was required to wear was not operative or was not always charged,” Ryan said.
Ryan said Talib had taken the monitoring device back to police because he thought it was defective.
Talib had also been accused of downloading the LinkedIn social media application to his phone in March 2023.
Ryan said there was no allegation Talib had used LinkedIn to contact anybody and he was no prohibited from using the internet.
“The charges are disputed… the time he has spent in custody since November 30 exceeds the length of any sentence imposed if he was found guilty of all the alleged breaches,” Ryan said.
A Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions representative presented an affidavit in response to the bail application but did not speak further.
Justice Declan Kelly said he would issue an order to grant Talib bail along with his reasons for doing so.
“I’m satisfied based on the material… that (Talib) has shown cause,” Kelly said.
