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It was invalid when, in 2020, the Ministry of Immigration and Integration revoked the Danish citizenship of a woman who years ago had traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State.
The Supreme Court decided that on Wednesday.
The decision is because, according to the Supreme Court, the ministry’s decision was not in accordance with the requirement of proportionality.
The Ministry of Immigration and Integration can only remove Danish citizenship if it does not make the person stateless.
The woman was born in Denmark and was given both Danish and Iranian citizenship at birth by virtue of her father.
But, according to the Supreme Court, she has “neither had a residence in Iran nor otherwise stayed in Iran for a long time, nor has contact with relatives in Iran, just as she does not speak Farsi, which is Iran’s official language.”
“The Supreme Court then determined that A (the woman, ed.) only has a very weak connection to Iran,” writes the Supreme Court.
It was in 2015 that the woman, aged 20, traveled to Syria to join the self-proclaimed caliphate, Islamic State.
She married in Syria a man who was a member of the organization. They had children together.
She stayed in an area controlled by the Islamic State until she was captured in March 2019.
Since then she has stayed with her children in the al-Hol camp and later in the al-Roj camp.
The woman has not denied having joined the Islamic State, and that on that basis she could well be deprived of her Danish citizenship.
On the other hand, she argued that it was contrary to the principle of proportionality.
Earlier this week, the Ministry of Immigration and Integration was acquitted by Copenhagen City Court in a similar case.
In that case, two twin sisters had been stripped of their Danish citizenship.
According to TV 2, the women were born in Denmark to Somali refugees, but grew up in England and do not speak Danish.
According to the media, they went together to the Islamic State in Syria as 16-year-olds in 2014.
It was invalid when, in 2020, the Ministry of Immigration and Integration revoked the Danish citizenship of a woman who years ago had traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State.
The Supreme Court decided that on Wednesday.
The decision is because, according to the Supreme Court, the ministry’s decision was not in accordance with the requirement of proportionality.
The Ministry of Immigration and Integration can only remove Danish citizenship if it does not make the person stateless.
The woman was born in Denmark and was given both Danish and Iranian citizenship at birth by virtue of her father.
But, according to the Supreme Court, she has “neither had a residence in Iran nor otherwise stayed in Iran for a long time, nor has contact with relatives in Iran, just as she does not speak Farsi, which is Iran’s official language.”
“The Supreme Court then determined that A (the woman, ed.) only has a very weak connection to Iran,” writes the Supreme Court.
It was in 2015 that the woman, aged 20, traveled to Syria to join the self-proclaimed caliphate, Islamic State.
She married in Syria a man who was a member of the organization. They had children together.
She stayed in an area controlled by the Islamic State until she was captured in March 2019.
Since then she has stayed with her children in the al-Hol camp and later in the al-Roj camp.
The woman has not denied having joined the Islamic State, and that on that basis she could well be deprived of her Danish citizenship.
On the other hand, she argued that it was contrary to the principle of proportionality.
Earlier this week, the Ministry of Immigration and Integration was acquitted by Copenhagen City Court in a similar case.
In that case, two twin sisters had been stripped of their Danish citizenship.
According to TV 2, the women were born in Denmark to Somali refugees, but grew up in England and do not speak Danish.
According to the media, they went together to the Islamic State in Syria as 16-year-olds in 2014.
