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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Nino Bucci

Australian government wrongly cancelled citizenship of man on death row in Iraq, family claim

Ahmad Merhi is in prison in Iraq, where he has been sentenced to the death penalty on terrorism charges.
Ahmad Merhi is in prison in Iraq, where he has been sentenced to the death penalty on terrorism charges. Photograph: Supplied by Ahmad Merhi's family

The former Coalition government wrongly cancelled the citizenship of an Australian man on death row in Iraq, leaving him stateless as he awaited hanging on terrorism charges, his family and lawyers claim.

Ahmad Merhi, originally from Sydney, travelled to Syria in 2014. He was captured in the country in 2017.

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