Fayez Hatahet was sentenced to five years jail in December 2022, after pleading guilty to fighting with terrorist groups in Syria.
The High Court has ruled a five-year jail term handed to a Sydney man convicted of fighting with terrorist groups linked to Al Qaeda in Syria is not excessive, despite Commonwealth law stopping him from being granted parole.The dual Australian and Jordanian citizen had claimed his initial reason for travelling to Syria was to try to secure the release of his brother-in-law who he believed was being held by an armed group, but he also then joined fighting in the war-torn nation.
Hatahet's lawyers challenged that sentence in the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal, arguing it was excessive given he was not going to be granted parole after three years. They also argued the conditions of his detention, in the highest security wing of the Goulburn jail, were "extremely onerous" and his family had "suffered greatly" as a result.
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