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Convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika wins high court battle for Australian citizenship
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Convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika could be released from prison in the next eight weeks after he successfully appealed against the stripping of his Australian citizenship in the high court.
The decision of a majority of the court on Wednesday struck down another part of Coalition-era powers, following a similar ruling in June 2022 that found suspected terrorists cannot be punished by ministers removing their citizenship.
The commonwealth solicitor general, Stephen Donaghue KC, told a high court hearing in June that it was not then unprecedented that an individual convicted and sentenced for an offence would then be subject to additional punishment.
In June 2022 the high court restored the Australian citizenship of Delil Alexander, a Turkish citizen who was assessed to have joined Islamic State.
On Wednesday the high court similarly found in Benbrika’s favour in what it described as a “sequel” to Alexander’s case, ruling that section 36D of the Citizenship Act is invalid as it confers powers to the minister that should be exclusive to the judiciary.
In a dissenting ruling, justice Simon Steward agreed with the commonwealth that it has “never been an essentially judicial function to make orders which denationalise a person”.
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