Singapore ‘won’t cop idiots’: Australia welcomes city state barring former terror suspect ahead of Trump-Kim summit
The city state has been stepping up security in the run-up to Tuesday’s meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
Singapore said Thursday that it had refused to allow an Australian once tried on terrorism charges to enter the city state due to his history of extremism and sent him home to Sydney.
Zaky Mallah was denied entry to Singapore on Wednesday as it prepares to host a historic meeting next week between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement that the 34-year-old was denied entry “on account of his terrorism-related antecedents”.
The ministry referred to Mallah in 2003 as becoming the first person charged under new Australian counterterrorism laws with planning a suicide attack on the offices of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
He was acquitted in 2005 of charges of preparing a terrorist act, but received a 2 ½-year jail sentence after pleading guilty to threatening violence against Australian government officials, the statement said.