High Court asked to define an Islamic State member after Adelaide woman’s IS membership conviction overturned

September 3, 2020   

(ABC-Australia) How do you join a terrorist organisation? That’s the question before the High Court today.

Adelaide woman Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif, 25, was nabbed by police in 2016, as she tried to leave Australia on a one-way ticket to Turkey with only $180 in her possession.

She was later convicted by a jury of intentionally being a member of Islamic State (IS).

But Ms Abdirahman-Khalif was freed late last year after an appeal found the prosecution had failed to present evidence of how a terrorist organisation admits members.

One of the key issues in the case, now in front of the High Court of Australia, is whether the steps she took to go to Turkey were sufficient to link her to membership of IS.

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