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A woman’s New Zealand passport was canceled when it was thought she was intending to aid ISIS terrorism. (File photo)
A woman whose passport was canceled for alleged reasons related to terrorism, appealed against a failed legal challenge.
The woman, whose name was suppressed, had her passport canceled in 2016 because the Interior Minister, then Peter Dunne, thought there were reasonable grounds to believe she was a danger to Syria by attempting to facilitate a terrorist act.
The minister was told that she had been detained on the Turkish-Syrian border on suspicion of trying to enter Syria, marry an Isis fighter and support Isis.
The Security Intelligence Service believed that she was responsible for pro-Isis material posted online and for translating pro-Isis material so that it could be more widely disseminated and used to facilitate terrorism.
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The woman said the decision was made negligently, in bad faith and unfair, and that she wanted it to be overturned and damages awarded.
But a Wellington Superior Court judge rejected all of the grounds she raised, and a special advocate appointed to deal with classified security information that she was unaware of raised them on her behalf.
She lives in Australia and conducted part of the case herself by telephone and via audiovisual links to the Wellington High Court.
In his decision, Judge Robert Dobson recognized that the process that should have been adopted due to classified security information could not “ensure the substantial measure of procedural justice that was required.”
The woman has appealed against the outcome of her case. No date has been set for the hearing.
