(Australian) Australia’s first jihadi bride, Zehra Duman, has had her Australian citizenship formally restored by the High Court — and the taxpayer ordered to pay her legal fees.
The former Melbourne schoolgirl became a high-profile online cheerleader for ISIS after moving to Syria in 2014 to marry Melbourne jihadist Mahmoud Abdullatif.
One of only about two Australian women to lose her citizenship, she was notified in 2019 that her Australian statehood had been stripped as a result of her membership and support of ISIS.
She lodged an appeal in 2020, but the case was not formally resolved until last week, when the High Court signed off on a consent order which read: “The court declares that the first plaintiff is an Australian citizen.”
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