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NSW authorities are set to invoke tough new anti-terror laws against the brother of slain Islamic State fighter Mohamed Elomar when he is released from jail late next week.
Ahmed Elomar would be forced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet for at least three years under the laws passed in NSW last year.
An application for a three-year extended supervision order against Elomar, who was jailed after bashing a policeman during the Hyde Park riots in 2012, is part of a wider strategy by police and security services to deal with the growing number of alleged Muslim radicals emerging from the state’s prison system.
The riots were billed as a peaceful response to the anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims, but they were hijacked by a core group of hardened extremists who fought...