IS returnee renounces terror group in Melbourne court bail hearing

El Houli's children were detained with her at al-Hawl camp in Syria and travelled with her through Lebanon before returning to Australia.

In a Melbourne courtroom, a 34-year-old Australian woman who allegedly spent years inside Islamic State's territory formally renounced the group and violent jihad — a declaration her barrister offered as evidence of transformation, and prosecutors received as insufficient proof of it. Rayann El Houli, who returned to Australia in September after years detained at a Syrian camp following IS's military collapse, now faces the ancient and unresolved question courts have always struggled to answer: whether a human being has genuinely changed, or merely learned to say so. The magistrate, unwilling

IS returnee renounces terror group in Melbourne court bail hearing

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