A SOUTH Australian man has been charged with advocating terrorism by filming demonstrations on how to kill Jewish people — the first time the charge has been laid in Australia.
Members of the South Australian Joint Counter Terrorism Team, acting on information from the National Security Hotline, arrested the 50-year-old Flinders Park man on Thursday morning.
The man, who appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court today via a phone link from a high dependency unit in the infirmary at Yatala Labour Prison, has been charged with four counts of advocating terrorism.
He allegedly posted videos to social media that encouraged people in international conflict zones to commit terrorist acts.
Commonwealth prosecutor John Clover told the court the four counts relate to four separate videos posted to social media.
“In each video the defendant is depicted advocating with other persons to engage in acts of terrorism,” he said.
“(The videos) provide explicit verbal instructions as well as physical demonstrations with weapons as to how to kill Jewish people,” he said.
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