High Court upholds Islamic State member charge against Adelaide woman Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif

(ABC-Australia) South Australian woman Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif, who was re-arrested today after the High Court reinstated her conviction for being a member of terrorist group Islamic State (IS), will make a bid to be released on parole.

An Adelaide jury had found her guilty of the charge, but she was freed on appeal.

She will now return to jail.

Her lawyer, James Caldicott, said she was devastated and disappointed by the outcome, and that she would be applying for release on parole.

“My client, who has been in the community with no issue, no impropriety for a period of over a year, had now been [taken] back into custody,” Mr Caldicott said.

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