A Sydney magistrate has scolded prosecutors over the delayed case of nationalist political prisoner Joel Davis, who has been in solitary confinement in inhumane conditions for almost five months over a minor non-violent charge.
Mr Davis, 31, remains in isolation at the dilapidated and unsafe Long Bay Correctional Complex, where he continues to be regularly denied access to showers and exercise, is banned from receiving books, has only had one family visit, and has a restricted phone list due to being designated a “national security threat” despite .
The former member of now-disbanded activist group the National Socialist Network has been repeatedly refused bail due to his political ideology since November 20, most recently on January 15, after being charged over a Telegram post where he alleged asked his followers to “rhetorically rape” federal MP Allegra Spender in response to her calling for him to be jailed over a police-approved rally.
Alleged Bondi terrorist Naveed Akram was temporarily housed in the same jail, which the NSW prison watchdog has recommended be immediately closed, before being moved to the modern Goulburn Supermax prison where his cell contains a shower, he is allowed into the cell’s private yard to exercise for up to seven hours a day, and gets pre-approved family visits.
The alleged ISIS mass murderer, who was planning his attack while police were arresting Mr Davis just streets from where the massacre took place, was also given immediate access to a Koran and a Muslim chaplain while locked in the same facility as Mr Davis, while the Australian nationalist was not given a Bible until early January.
On Monday Akram was also granted a non-publication order preventing the media from publishing the names, addresses and workplaces of his family members, while Mr Davis’s partner was harassed by reporters and photographed at her home just days after giving birth.
Mr Davis’s matter was heard in Downing Centre Local Court for a charge certification on Wednesday where the Crown Prosecutor asked for a six-week adjournment, earning him a rebuke from Magistrate Greg Grogin.
“You already got four weeks in February,” the magistrate said, and asked why the prosecution was not ready to proceed.
Mr Davis’s defence counsel, appearing on behalf of Matthew Hopkins of Paladin Lawyers, told the court his client had a Supreme Court bail application on April 2, and agreed to adjourn the charge certification hearing until April 10. Mr Davis did not appear.
Noticer News understands Mr Davis intends to fight the single charge of using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend, and the same court previously heard only 6.5% of the 2,000 convictions for that offence have resulted in a custodial sentence.
Mr Davis was initially denied bail by a different magistrate who cited and alleged risk of reoffending, his “espoused ideology”, then-membership of the NSN, and participation in the protest against Jewish lobby influence in early November, resulting in him missing the birth of his first child.
He then had multiple bail applications rejected by other magistrates who ruled that his circumstances had not changed enough to warrant a bail review and cited Mr Davis’s political beliefs as a factor due to the “political climate” in the wake of the Bondi attack.
While on remand Mr Davis was also hit with seven more charges laid by Victoria Police for allegedly vilifying Jews, Indians and Africans on a podcast and during an election stunt.
Nationalist activist Joel Davis, who has been in jail for almost two months after being denied bail for a Telegram post, has been hit with a series of “hate speech” charges over a podcast episode from December 2024.
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He is also fighting a South Australian Nazi symbol charge over a belt buckle with an eagle on it laid in the aftermath of a march on Australia Day in Adelaide last year, and an offensive behaviour charge over a “refugee” rally counter-protest in Melbourne in October 2024.
Mr Davis’s ongoing incarceration has sparked complaints from politicians and advocacy groups, international and local protests, and stoked anger over Australia’s two-tier justice system, where leftist activists and alleged sex offenders are frequently given bail and non-custodial sentences while right-wing offenders are given harsh sentences.
Last month another nationalist activist, father-of-one Brandan Koschel, 31, was sentenced to one year in jail with a non-parole period of nine months – for a 4-second speech where he called Jews “the enemy” – in the same court by Deputy Chief Magistrate Sharon Freund, who a week earlier gave a paedophile a lighter sentence.
Earlier this month prominent Melbourne-based activist Jacob Hersant finished a one-month prison sentence for performing a Nazi salute, and former White Australia leader Thomas Sewell spent almost three months in solitary confinement last year after being refused bail over an alleged clash with leftist activists.
The same magistrate that denied Mr Sewell bail then opted not to jail Malith Fernando, a “transgender” far-left extremist who set off a bomb at a Melbourne expo and was found with dozens of homemade explosive devices in his home but was not charged with terror offences and was never refused bail.
Header image: Left, Joel Davis. Right, Naveed Akram (supplied).
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