(Brussels Times) Belgium did not overstep the line when it stripped two convicted terrorists of their Belgian nationality in 2017, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday.
The convicted terrorists were Malika El Aroud — also known to the general public as the “black widow of jihad” — and Bilal Soughir. In view of the offences they both committed, the court felt that both had “seriously failed in their duties as Belgian citizens” and stripped them of their Belgian nationality. In its decision at the time, the court noted that both applicants had another nationality.
Both contested that Belgium had stripped them of their Belgian nationality, but the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg ruled against them on Thursday.
