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Shamima Begum loses appeal against decision to remove British citizenship – BBC News
Shamima Begum has lost her challenge over the decision to deprive her of British citizenship because she is a threat to national security. Mr Justice Jay told the semi-secret court dealing with her case that her appeal had been fully dismissed. The decision means the 23-year-old remains barred from returning to the UK and stuck in a camp in northern Syria. Ms Begum was 15…
Shamima begum loses bid to restore British citizenship
Shamima Begum, the British national who travelled to Syria as a schoolgirl to join ISIL (ISIS), has lost her latest legal attempt to regain citizenship. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission – a tribunal that considers appeals against government decisions to remove citizenship on national security grounds – dismissed Begum’s appeal at a hearing on Wednesday. She left London in 2015 aged 15 and, with two…
Shamima Begum: Spy for Canada smuggled UK schoolgirl to Syria – BBC News
Shamima Begum, who fled the UK and joined the Islamic State group when she was a teenager, was smuggled into Syria by an intelligence agent for Canada. Ms Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join the IS group in 2015. Files seen by the BBC show he claimed to have shared Ms Begum’s passport details with…