Shamima Begum has lost her battle for British citizenship — eight years after she left the UK as a 15-year-old schoolgirl to join Islamic State (ISIS).
Begum, who left east London aged 15 to join the Islamic State, had been challenging the decision taken by the then-home secretary, Sajid Javid, in 2019 to strip her of her British citizenship.
Today, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) decided this decision was lawful and ruled that the suspicion she had been trafficked to Syria was insufficient for her to succeed in the appeal.
