Australian court lifts social media ban on Sydney church stabbing video | Police News

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.

Despite the unrest, X owner Elon Musk resisted the ban and, amid a legal tussle, sought to turn the issue into a debate about censorship. Australian officials have criticised his efforts, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese branding him “an arrogant billionaire” for refusing to take down the video.

“The orders of the court will be that the application to extend the interlocutory injunction … is refused,” Kennett said as he delivered his ruling.

It is unclear whether the judge rejected the extension of the order on procedural or more substantive …