ISIS bride Zehra Duman could return to Australia as government scrambles to close legal loophole

Main legislative flaws in our nationwide safety legal guidelines may enable greater than a dozen accused Islamic State terrorists to use to have their Australian citizenship returned.

A legislative loophole may enable jihadi bride Zehra Duman (pictured) to return to Australia regardless of her identified hyperlinks to the Islamic State terrorism group 

It comes 4 months after the Excessive Courtroom of Australia dominated citizenship cessation legal guidelines had been invalid as they relied on a ministerial resolution and never a judicial verdict. 

Authorities attorneys knowledgeable ISIS jihadi bride Zehra Duman’s authorized staff on Monday they might not struggle an enchantment towards the Coalition authorities’s resolution to strip her citizenship. 

In late 2014, Duman, then-aged 19, went to Syria and have become Australia’s most infamous jihadi bride after marrying three ISIS fighters, together with fellow Melbourne extremist Mahmoud Abdullatif, often called the ‘playboy jihadi’. 

In 2014, Duman left Melbourne aged 19 and joined ISIS in Syria. She is believed to be dwelling in a refugee camp in Turkey along with her two kids, and is determined to return to Australia. Pictured: the girl considered Duman (centre) alongside support employees

The Albanese authorities is scrambling for a legislative resolution to the citizenship downside because the Excessive Courtroom’s ruling.

In June, the courtroom overturned the previous authorities’s resolution to strip twin Australian-Turkish nationwide Delil Alexander of his Australian citizenship whereas he was detained in Syria.

The ruling, which associated to Alexander and one different individual, set a precedent and had direct implications for roughly 20 Australians who’ve had their citizenship revoked over alleged terrorism hyperlinks.  

The federal government will introduce its personal citizenship cessation legal guidelines that might empower a courtroom, as a substitute of a minister, to resolve whether or not an individual concerned in terrorism actions ought to lose their citizenship.

It is believed the legal guidelines will apply to individuals who commit terrorism offences abroad in addition to on Australian soil.  

It comes because the threats Dunam made on social media resurface, the place she spruiked vile ISIS propaganda and instantly threatened Australia and a Every day Mail Australia reporter’s household. 

Duman used social media to unfold a collection of propaganda pictures selling ISIS (pictured)

In 2015, a Twitter account believed to be run by Duman posted photos of ISIS ladies brandishing machine weapons and standing subsequent to a BMW automotive, head to toe in Islamic gown, with the caption ‘5-star jihad’.

In a single tweet, Duman mentioned: ‘US + Australia, how does it really feel that each one 5 of us had been born n (sic) raised in your lands, and now right here thirsty for ur (sic) blood?’ 

On the time, Duman informed Every day Mail Australia: ‘All you must know is that the subsequent time I’ll ever step into Australia, is once we come and make it part of the Islamic State bi’thnillah (with the permission of Allah).

‘Oh and do I miss my household? Nicely I believe you’ll miss yours quickly (sic). Thanks and have an incredible day mate!’

Duman was detained within the Kurdish area of Syria after Islamic State’s collapse in March 2019, along with her Australian citizenship revoked later that yr. 

With the assistance of individuals smugglers, she escaped al-Hol detention camp and fled to Turkey along with her son, Jarred and daughter, Layla, and in 2020 was convicted of being a member of a terrorist group. 

Her household in Melbourne has lengthy campaigned for her return, saying she was ‘brainwashed’, with Duman begging to return to house and for her kids to be handled like ‘regular children’ in Australia. 

The Australian extremist despatched this threatening message to a Every day Mail Australia journalist on January 22, 2015 (pictured)  

In one in every of her tweets, Duman boasted about her and American jihadi brides being thirsty for Australian and American blood (pictured) 

The Albanese authorities goals to introduce citizenship cessation legal guidelines that empower a courtroom to resolve whether or not an individual concerned in terrorism actions needs to be stripped of citizenship (pictured, Zehra’s propaganda displaying Islamic State ladies subsequent to a BMW)