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Lyndal Rowlands

Q&A: UN expert on Australia citizenship-stripping plan and ‘legal fiction’

Renu Begum, eldest sister of Shamima Begum, 15, holds her sister's photo in February, 2015 in London, England [File image: WPA Pool/Getty Images]

The Australian Senate is currently considering legislation that would allow government ministers to ask judges to consider removing a person’s citizenship as punishment in certain cases of “serious crimes”.

Australia’s centre-left Labor government introduced the proposed legislation this week after Australia’s High Court recently ruled that previous legislation giving the Minister for Home Affairs the power to revoke citizenship was invalid.

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