freediver wrote on Jan 11
th, 2023 at 8:39pm:
If the women who travelled there to run their rape camps for them had been Aussie rather than British, would we be as welcoming, given that we may not be able to get a conviction?
Australia’s first jihadi bride, Zehra Duman, has had her Australian citizenship formally restored by the High Court – and the taxpayer ordered to pay her legal fees.
The former Melbourne schoolgirl became a high-profile online cheerleader for ISIS after moving to Syria in 2014 to marry Melbourne jihadist Mahmoud Abdullatif.
One of only about two Australian women to lose her citizenship, she was notified in 2019 that her Australian statehood had been stripped as a result of her membership and support of ISIS.
She lodged an appeal in 2020, but the case was not formally resolved until last week, when the High Court signed off on a consent order which read: “The court declares that the first plaintiff is an Australian citizen.’’
The defendant – the Commonwealth of Australia – was ordered to pay her legal fees.
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The formalisation of the restoration of her citizenship comes almost a year after the federal government advised her legal team it would not dispute her claim to have her citizenship restored.
The move followed the collapse of the Coalition government-era citizenship cessation laws in June last year, which were found by the High Court to be invalid because they relied on a ministerial decision instead of a judicial decision.
The collapse of the laws meant about a dozen ISIS fighters, members or supporters were immediately eligible to have their citizenship restored. All had lost their citizenship without being convicted in an Australian court.
During her time in Syria, Duman used social media to promote attacks on the West, calling for nonbelievers to be killed and attacks launched on Australia, the UK and the US.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/jihadi-bride-zehra-dumans-australian-citizenship-is-formally-restored-by-high-court/news-story/f5d2d3dec0a86cbebe50130bc4eacf51