Australia's highest court on Wednesday overturned a government decision to strip citizenship from a man convicted of terrorism.The ruling is a second blow in the High Court to the law introduced almost a decade ago that allows a government minister to strip dual nationals...
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s highest court on Wednesday overturned a government decision to strip citizenship from a man convicted of terrorism.
The ruling also prevents the government from deporting Algerian-born cleric Abdul Benbrika when he is released from prison, which is expected within weeks. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government would examine the ruling in regards to the law passed by the previous government.“It’s a fundamental breach of the separation of powers in Australia which says that judging guilty and determining punishment should be by courts and not by people in Parliament,” Williams said.
The High Court last year struck down a separate clause of the law that allowed a dual national imprisoned in Syria to lose his citizenship on suspicion that he had been an Islamic State group fighter.
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