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Australian court lifts social media ban on Sydney church stabbing video

A 16-year-old has been charged with a terrorism offence for the April 15 stabbing of Assyrian orthodox Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in Sydney, Australia [File: Jaimi Joy/Reuters]

An Australian court has allowed social media to carry a video of April’s stabbing of an Assyrian church bishop in a Sydney church.

In a decision on Monday, Federal Court Judge Geoffrey Kennett said an application by Australia’s cyber-safety regulator to extend a temporary injunction blocking the video, granted last month, had been refused. The attack, which authorities have labelled a terror incident, provoked violent unrest in the Australian city.

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