A 16-year-old Singaporean boy, a Protestant Christian of Indian ethnicity, was detained last month under the Internal Security Act (ISA) after planning to use a machete to attack Muslims at two mosques in March.
The teenager, who was not named, is the youngest person to be detained under the ISA for terrorism-related activities, the Internal Security Department (ISD) said in a media release on Wednesday.
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He is the first detainee in the city-state to be inspired by far-Right extremist ideology, the Channel News Asia reported, citing the ISD release.
It said the teen was influenced by the 2019 terror attacks at two mosques in Christchurch in which 51 people were killed.
