A seven year old Irish citizen currently in Belarus, whose father allegedly fought for Islamic terror group ISIS in Syria, has brought a High Court challenge aimed at getting his passport renewed. Last February, the boy's mother applied to the Minister for Foreign Affairs to have his Irish passport, which was confiscated by the Turkish authorities, renewed. Abdul was born in Dublin in April 2013, and in July or August that year the boy was granted an Irish passport. Counsel said that the exceptional delay in making the decision to renew his passport has endangered the boy's health and well-being. It is claimed it was unlawful at this stage to seek to revoke the boy's father's citizenship in so far that it may have a retrospective effect on the boy's Irish citizenship.

Source: Irish Independent May 14, 2020 17:03 UTC