Citizenship loss laws justified: Triggs

Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs says any laws to strip people's citizenship must be executed by the courts not a minister.

Courts rather than a government minister should be given the power to strip citizenship from suspected terrorists, Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs believes.

Professor Triggs acknowledged it was the government's sovereign right to decide who should lose citizenship.

"But the great difficulty is we cannot have government and the parliament passing laws and then executing those laws ... it must be by the courts," she told ABC radio on Friday.


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