Sydney terror accused to seek bail

A Sydney man banned from associating with accused terror extremists has faced court over allegations he breached strict control order conditions.

Ahmad Saiyer Naizmand, 21, is prevented from associating with 18 Sydney extremists, watching terrorist propaganda and possessing guns or chemicals under a strict court order imposed last year.

But he was arrested by counter terrorism officers at his home on Monday and charged with breaching the control order, which expires on Sunday, five times.

Naizmand did not face Burwood Local Court for a brief hearing on Tuesday, but his lawyer Hisham Karnib indicated he would make a bail application via audio-visual link on March 7.

He declined to comment as he left the court.

The control order imposed on Naizmand names 18 western Sydney extremists who he is not to associate with, including a 12-year-old boy and others accused of terror offences in connection with the murder of NSW Police accountant Curtis Cheng outside Parramatta police headquarters last October.

It also prevents him possessing chemicals or guns and from watching executions, beheadings or terrorist propaganda.

But in court documents, police allege on "no less than five occasions" Naizmand accessed "electronic media depicting or describing propaganda or promotional material for a terrorist organisation" namely Islamic State in January and February.

Documents also allege Naizmand accessed electronic media depicting or describing explosives, suicide bombings or terrorist attacks.

An interim order was imposed in March last year after Naizmand was handed a 12-month suspended sentence and good behaviour bond for stealing his brother's passport and attempting to travel to the Middle East.

Naizmand, who had his own passport cancelled for security reasons, travelled successfully from Australia and through Malaysia but was detained in Dubai in September 2014 and returned to Sydney by authorities.

He was also targeted by authorities in the same month as part of Operation Appleby, when his Kellyville home was searched in Australia's largest terror raids.

The order was formalised by the courts with one alteration in December after Naizmand successfully argued that restrictions on his attendance at Sydney mosques would impinge on his religious freedom.