Rayann El Houli, 34, has fronted the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on charges that she joined Islamic State and entered and remained in Raqqa, Syria, more than a decade ago.

Chief Magistrate Lisa Hannan outlined the prosecution's summary of evidence at El Houli's bail hearing on Monday. The court was told El Houli travelled to Syria between 2013 and 2014 with the intention of joining IS fighters.

The prosecution alleged that while in Syria, El Houli expressed support for terrorist acts, backed acts of martyrdom, and repeatedly voiced support for the killing or serious injury of nonbelievers.

Magistrate Hannan said the prosecution case also alleged El Houli tried to indoctrinate her own children and invited people living in Australia to travel to Syria to live under Islamic State ideology.

The court heard El Houli left Raqqa in 2019 "when the caliphate was defeated and not as a result of her changing views", according to the magistrate's reading of the prosecution case. Prosecutors allege El Houli married several Islamic State members during her time in Syria.

Her lawyer, Peter Morrissey, told the court his client renounces ISIS and violent jihad and that expert evidence would be produced showing her views had changed.

"She wants nothing to do with it: not now directly or indirectly. Not in the future. Not for herself. Not for the people she loves and specifically not for the children," Morrissey said.

The defence told the court El Houli was willing to undertake deradicalisation programs, but that a potential diagnosis of multiple sclerosis had affected her ability to do so.

Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Under Australian law, people charged with terrorism offences can only be granted bail in exceptional circumstances.

El Houli was detained by Kurdish forces in March 2019 and held with family members at the al-Hol camp for displaced people in northern Syria. The court heard she later escaped the camp with her sister and children, paid a smuggler to get them into Lebanon, and returned to Australia from Lebanon last year. She was arrested in Melbourne the previous week.

She's the fourth Australian woman from the latest cohort of returning so-called "ISIS brides" to be charged. The Joint Counter Terrorism Team in Victoria laid the charges. Six women and 13 children arrived in Melbourne and Sydney on 26 May. Two earlier groups arrived at airports in Melbourne and Sydney on 7 May.

Magistrate Hannan described the charges as "very serious" and said she'd need to weigh the risk to the community when deciding whether to grant bail. The hearing was adjourned to give the defence time to organise expert witnesses.

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