Jihadi accused receiving money from Instagram campaign to support ‘struggling’ Supermax prisoners and families
THE state’s worst jihadis are receiving money from an Instagram fundraising campaign to help support “struggling” Supermax prisoners and their families.
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THE state’s worst jihadis are receiving money from a fundraising campaign to support “struggling” Supermax prisoners and their families.
The Goulburn Supermax Awareness Instagram account pleads for donations for “brothers in jail struggling” and “families of prisoners struggling”.
Money is being collected by friends of convicted and accused terrorists, who are profiled in the campaign. The three-week-old account is supported online by British extremist Abu Haleema.
Haleema garnered a growing allegiance of young Australians on YouTube and Facebook and was arrested on terrorism offences in the UK last year. He has attacked moderate Sydney sheiks and his Facebook page, shut down in December, was followed by several men targeted in Sydney counter-terrorism raids. Known Sydney radicals are linked to his active Instagram account.
“Please follow and support this account, don’t forget our brothers being oppressed in golbourne (sic) supermax,” Haleema posted soon after the Instagram account was created.
Ahmed Saiyer Naizmand, 21, who was refused bail on Monday after allegedly breaching an anti-terror control order, is profiled on the account alongside Raban Alou, 18.
Alou faces charges of supplying the gun used to kill NSW Police worker Curtis Cheng, among other terror charges. Also featured is convicted terrorist Milad Bin Ahmad-Shah Al-Ahmadzai.
Al-Ahmadzai was last week found guilty of shooting a man with intent to murder. He was already in Supermax after being jailed for nine months for threatening to slit the throat of an ASIO officer.
Another featured prisoner is defending charges he possessed documents designed to facilitate a terrorist attack.
“It’s not easy for them behind there ... no matter how many smiles they put on,” another jihadi supporter posted.
“ ... its killing them daily, 23 hours inV a cell with no one.’’
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