Mustafa Hajj-Obeid
According to the Australian Government Mustafa Haji-Obeid, formerly a joint citizen of Lebanon and Australia, merited being stripped of Australian citizenship, because he was a supporter of ISIS.[1]
After coming to Australia he settled in Sydney, and eventually married Rayan Hamdoush, a woman 20 years his junior.[2][3] The pair travelled to ISIS occupied Syria, where, according to the Australian government, he became an official with ISIS.[1]
When the ISIS enclave collapsed his wife ended up in the al Hawl refugee camp - generally described as "squalid". She gave birth on November 30, 2019.[2][3]
On December 17, 2019, the Sydney Morning Herald reported the Australian Government had sent a letter to his last known address in Sydney, informing him he had been stripped of his Australian citizenship, due to his ties with ISIS.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Michael Bachelard (2019-12-17). "New father among two men stripped of Australian citizenship". Sydney Morning Herald. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/new-father-among-two-men-stripped-of-australian-citizenship-20191217-p53kry.html. Retrieved 2021-06-23. "A November 21 letter from the Home Affairs department sent to the former Sydney address of Mustafa Hajj Obeid says that, as a result of being "in service of Islamic State outside Australia", his citizenship automatically "ceased on 6 May 2016" − the date IS was proscribed as a terrorist organisation."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ben Doherty (2019-12-11). "Birth of boy sparks renewed calls to rescue Australians in Syria's squalid al-Hawl camp". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/11/birth-of-boy-sparks-renewed-calls-to-rescue-australians-in-syrias-squalid-al-hawl-camp. Retrieved 2021-06-23. "Rayan Hamdoush, 24, from western Sydney, was pregnant when she entered al-Hawl. She gave birth to the boy on 30 November. The boy’s father, Mustapha Hajj Obeid, also from Sydney, is missing."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Michael Bachelard (2019-12-10). "A new Australian baby born in squalor in a Syrian detention camp". Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 2019-12-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20191210105022/https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/a-new-australian-baby-born-in-squalor-in-a-syrian-detention-camp-20191210-p53ioi.html. Retrieved 2021-06-23. "Ms Hamdoush had not known she was pregnant when she left the final battleground of Baghuz, he said. She was in Syria alongside her husband, Sydney man Mustafa Hajj-Obeid."
