Abdul Malik Bekmirzaev passport case adjourned

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Abdul Malik Bekmirzaev’s passport-renewal proceedings were adjourned before Mr Justice Charles Meenan on 18 May 2020.

The Irish citizen, aged seven, was in Belarus with his mother after their deportation from a Turkish refugee camp. The State sought time to consider complex issues concerning his father’s naturalisation, while Abdul claimed the passport was being withheld because citizenship might be revoked. The judge was prepared to facilitate an early hearing and adjourned the dispute to the following month.