SYDNEY: The rate at which suspected extremists are being blocked from departing Australia has doubled in the past year, a report said, amid a government crackdown of its nationals travelling to Iraq or Syria to fight.
A total of 312 people were pulled off planes in the seven months to the end of January, compared to 336 in the almost 12-month period before that, Sydney’s Sun-Herald newspaper reported yesterday.
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