| There was an interesting case recently where the Daesh terrorist Neil Prakash had his Australian citizenship revoked illegally (according to both Australian and International law). His father had emigrated to Australia from Fiji, met a Cambodian woman and had a child. Father and son eventually became Australian citizens. In any case, Australia enacted a law recently that allowed them to revoke citizenship of terrorists if they held dual citizenship. The Australian govt revoked Prakash's citizenship, asserting that he also held Fijian citizenship. The Fiji govt disputed this, asserting that Prakash was not a Fijian citizen, had never been one, and hadn't so much as stepped foot in Fiji. They said that he had qualified for Fijian citizenship by virtue of being born overseas to a Fiji citizen, but that since his father had never applied for citizenship for his son, it was never granted to him. Fijian citizenship is only granted automatically to children of a Fijian parent born on Fijian soil. By stripping this Aussie of his citizenship and making him stateless, Australia acted illegally according to both their own laws as well as international law. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/02/neil-... |