Zaky Mallah

On 7 June 2018, Mallah was denied entry to Singapore. Officials detained him, at the airport. Mallah was able to contact an Australian reporter before Singapore officials took away his phone, prior to questioning him. He later reported they questioned him for five hours, before sending him back to Australia.

Mallah appeared on Q&A on 22 June 2015, putting a pre-approved question to LNP member Steven Ciobo. Prime Minister Tony Abbott strongly criticised the ABC for "giving Mallah a platform" saying that "heads should roll". He asked "Which side is the ABC on?" and said that the ABC "betrayed" Australia.

Mallah designed a new flag for Australia in 2015 which he named AusRoo.

In January 2013, Mallah was a member of a panel interviewed by ABC journalist Stephanie Smail. According to Smail, Mallah started the Free Syria Army Australia group.

In May 2013 Mallah published a guideline for other Australians considering volunteering to help Muslims in war zones on how they could do so, without violating provisions in the anti-terrorism act that barred Australians from fighting in foreign wars. According to the News.com.au, Mallah's analysis was that various kinds of non-violent assistance in war zones would not violate Australian law. Mallah asserted treating wounded fighters would not violate Australian law; neither would preparing or serving rations, or carrying flags. Mallah claimed that individuals killed while aiding fighters would be martyrs entitled to the same after-life benefits an actual fighter is promised. His guideline also included advice for volunteers who wanted to avoid risking their own lives.

Zee News reported on 18 May 2013 that Mallah had been charged under the anti-terrorism act a second time for broadcasting the video.

In December 2012, after returning from Syria, The Australian reported Mallah claimed he had received death threats from individuals who doubted his truthfulness, and suspected he was a covert employee of Australian security agencies.

Zaky Mallah is an Australian who pleaded guilty to threatening to kill officers of ASIO or DFAT. In 2011 Mallah travelled to Syria to film the Syrian Civil War, declaring himself in support of the Free Syrian Army. In 2015 he was controversially allowed to ask a question on the ABC program Q&A, leading then Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott to question "Which side is the ABC on"?

In 2011 Mallah was employed by ANZ Stadium until he was fired for broadcasting a video of non-public areas of the Stadium on YouTube. The videos included a shot of a private dining room, for VIPs, and a shot of the kitchen, where he worked. ANZ Stadium officials stated that the broadcast breached his employment conditions. Mallah asserted that his firing was triggered by his employers learning that he had once been charged under the anti-terrorism act.

In 2011, following uprisings that were part of the Arab Spring, Mallah travelled to Syria during the Syrian civil war. Mallah has asserted that he and all the other Australians he met in Syria were filling non-combat roles, which would not violate Australian law.

In September 2005, his jail term was extended by 6 weeks for assaulting a prison officer.

In 2003, when he was nineteen, Mallah was the first to be arrested under then-recently enacted amendments to Australia's federal Criminal Code Act which introduced specific offences for terrorism-related acts. Mallah spent two years in Goulburn Correctional Centre subject to solitary confinement and a 22-hour lockdown while he awaited trial.