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Zaky Mallah is an Australian who has been charged but found not guilty under Australia's anti-terrorism laws.〔 〕 In 2011 Mallah travelled to Syria to film the Syrian Civil War, declaring himself in support of the Free Syrian Army. In 2015 he was controversially allowed to ask a question on the ABC program Q&A, leading then Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott to question "Which side is the ABC on"? ==First Australian charged under its anti-terrorism act== In 2003, when he was nineteen, Mallah was the first to be arrested 〔 〕 under then-recently encacted amendments to Australia's federal Criminal Code Act which introduced specific offences for terrorism-related acts. Mallah spent two years in Goulburn Correctional Centre subject to solitary confinement and a 22-hour lockdown while he awaited trial.〔 〕 The circumstances of the case were that after being refused a passport, Mallah appealed through a lawyer to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Both Mallah and his lawyer were barred from viewing the evidence supporting the passport refusal, which was upheld. Mallah then purchased a rifle and ammunition, prepared his will and made a video to be played after he died. Mallah bragged about this and his claims were eventually brought up on the Alan Jones radio program. The Australian newspaper then paid him $500 for an interview. The Counter Terrorist Command, also aware of the threats, sent an undercover officer posing as a freelance journalist to do another interview. This undercover officer offered Mallah $5,000 if he would hold everyone hostage at ASIO headquarters and give the "journalist" the scoop.〔 〕 Entrapment of a suspect in Australia is legal if the police obtain a "controlled operations authority certificate" however, the police did not get a certificate so the entrapment was illegal.〔 〕 At his trial Justice James Wood allowed the entrapment into evidence. Woods criticized the media for accepting claims as credible and giving them undue prominence in newspapers. At his trial, the jury found Mallah not guilty of 2 counts of "committing an act in preparation for or in the planning of a terrorist act, contrary to s.101.6(1)". Justice Wood stated that "the prisoner was an idiosyncratic, and embittered young man, who was to all intents something of a loner, without significant prospects of advancing himself. While I accept that the Prisoner enjoyed posing as a potential martyr, and may from time to time, in his own imagination, have contemplated creating a siege and taking the lives of others, I am satisfied that in his more rational moments he lacked any genuine intention of doing so." Mallah was also charged with "making a threat to cause serious harm to a third party: (s.147.2)", referring to the verbal threats made to the undercover officer. He was sentenced to two and a half years jail. 〔 In September 2005, his jail term was extended by 6 weeks for assaulting a prison officer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zaky Mallah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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