PISSI mercenaries, Australia

Australia has brought home some Australians supporters of PISSI who were in prison camps in Syria. Now one of them is facing charges of going to Syria to support PISSI.

I think it was right to bring them home, and right to prosecute those who supported PISSI. Other countries should do likewise. Exile should not be used as a punishment for a crime, and imposing any punishment for any alleged crime without a trial is even worse.

However, the actual charge is "Travelling to Raqqa." That action is being used as a proxy for the act of going to support PISSI. The prosecution of an action which is only a proxy for the real accusation seems wrong to me.