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    Australian police charge 5 teens in investigation stemming from stabbing of Sydney bishop

    By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Police in Australia say five teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology have been charged with a range of offenses in an investigation that began with the stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church. Police said Thursday the five are among seven boys arrested

  • Australian police charge 5 teens in investigation stemming from stabbing of Sydney bishop

    Police in Australia say five teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology have been charged with a range of offenses in an investigation that began with the stabbing of a bishop in a Sydney church

  • Australian judge bars X from sharing video of bishop being stabbed in Sydney church

    An Australian judge on Monday ruled that social media platform X must block every user in the world from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church, extending the prohibition beyond users in Australia.

  • Australian police charge five teenagers over Sydney bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel’s stabbing

    Charges include conspiracy to prepare for a terrorist act, possessing violent extremist material and carrying a knife in public

  • Bishop backs stabbing video staying online

    The Sydney bishop stabbed in an alleged terrorist attack has backed keeping graphic videos of his assault online, defending the “god-given right” to free speech. In a video uploaded to YouTube, Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel made a public statement after he was stabbed several times during a live-streamed church service in Sydney’s southwest on April […]

  • WATCH: Bishop’s Powerful Response to Censorship Demands of Stabbing Video

    Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel is back to preaching and has issued a powerful new sermon in defense of free speech and the natural rights of man. On April 28, Bishop Emmanuel made his first public appearance after being viciously attacked by a knife-wielding assailant who left the bishop with only one eye. The bishop delivered a sermon in which he defended the right to freedom of speech as a fundamental human right and referred to the Australian government’s recent attempts to suppress the video of...

  • WATCH: Bishop’s Powerful Response to Censorship Demands of Stabbing Video

    Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel is back to preaching and has issued a powerful new sermon in defense of free speech and the natural rights of man. On April 28, Bishop Emmanuel made his first public appearance after being viciously attacked by a knife-wielding assailant who left the bishop with only one eye. The bishop delivered a sermon in which he defended the right to freedom of speech as a fundamental human right and referred to the Australian government’s recent attempts to suppress the video of...

  • Sydney teenager who allegedly wanted to stab non-Muslims denied bail

    Magistrate finds boy, 15, one of five charged with terrorism offences after Wakeley church stabbing, to be ‘unacceptable risk’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe youngest member of a group of teenagers accused of conspiring to plan a terror attack has been denied bail on the grounds that he posed an “unacceptable risk” to society.The 15-year-old had his head in his hands as he heard magistrate James...

  • Musk says X posts of Australia bishop stabbing don't promote violence

    Elon Musk's social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as "part of public discussion", rejecting a regulator's order to take down the content on grounds it is offensive and violent. In a post overnight Thursday, X's "global government affairs" account

  • Bishop wants stabbing videos kept online, X tells court

    Australia’s internet cop has secured an extended take-down order against Elon Musk’s X despite the bishop whose stabbing video triggered a courtroom stoush giving his permission for the content to be shared. The Federal Court battle will examine how far into cyberspace the eSafety Commissioner should be allowed to reach and its power over social […]

  • Elon Musk's X says posts of Australia bishop stabbing don't promote violence

    Elon Musk's social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as part of public discussion , rejecting a regulator's order to take down the content on grounds it is offensive and violent. In a post overnight, X's global government affairs account said the video taken by an innocent bystander should not have been banned under Australian law, which permits content that can be reasonably considered as part of public discussion or...

  • Counter-terror raids launched in Sydney as part of investigation into Wakeley church stabbing

    AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw confirmed raids were in relation to stabbing of bishop Mar Mari EmmanuelFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales police have conducted counter-terror raids across south-western Sydney as part of the investigation into the stabbing of a bishop at a church in Wakeley last week.“The JCTT [joint counter-terrorism team] Sydney is executing search warrants in Sydney...