One of Australia's most notorious convicted terrorists, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, has won his High Court bid to restore his Australian citizenship.
In 2008, Benbrika was found guilty of leading a terror cell that plotted to blow up Australian landmarks.He was later placed in immigration detention after former home affairs minister Peter Dutton cancelled his citizenship in 2020. Benbrika challenged the validity of the part of the citizenship act which allowed his Australian citizenship to be stripped.Originally from Algeria, Mr Dutton had said it was "appropriate" for the government to revoke Benbrika's Australian citizenship.
"I cancelled the Australian citizenship of convicted terrorist Benbrika, the first individual to have lost citizenship onshore," Mr Dutton had said at the time.He was later convicted of intentionally being a member of a terrorist organisation and intentionally directing the activities of a terrorist organisation.
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