Neil Prakash, Australia's most wanted jihadist who became a recruiter for the Islamic State terror group, has been stripped of his Australian citizenship.
Australia's Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton described the 27-year-old former rapper from Melbourne as "a very dangerous individual".
Through his father, Prakash had joint Australian and Fijian citizenship. Under Australian law, a dual national can be stripped of their citizenship if they are convicted or suspected of terror offences.
He had featured in ISIS videos and has been linked to a failed Melbourne plot to behead a police officer and another attack in which two officers were stabbed outside a Melbourne police station, the SBS News reported,
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