CANBERRA, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Australian Government has used anti-terrorism laws to strip an Islamic State (IS) terrorist of Australian citizenship.
A secret panel of intelligence officers, police, bureaucrats and lawyers reportedly made the decision to revoke Ahmed Sharrouf's citizenship earlier in 2017.
Sharrouf, 35, rose to notoriety after posting a picture of his son holding a severed head of a Syrian government official in 2014.
He was the target of wide-ranging anti-terrorism laws passed by the Australian parliament in 2015 which included granting the immigration minister the power to strip citizenship if it can be proved that a person was a member of a terrorist organization.
The law only applies to people who are dual-nationals due to Australia being a signatory to international convention that forbids it from leaving people stateless.
National security sources told News Limited on Saturday that the decision to strip Sharrouf's citizenship was based on his association with IS, which he joined in 2014.
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