One significant highlight of the recent Singapore Terrorism Threat Assessment Report 2023 by the Internal Security Department (ISD) was that since 2015, 11 self-radicalised Singaporean youths aged 20 or below have been detained under the Internal Security Act.
In addition, three of the four cases dealt with since the previous report in 2022 involved youths. The 2023 report noted that the youngest detainee was only 15 years old. The three Singaporean youths referenced in the report were all supporters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and had been radicalised by Islamist extremist narratives online.
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