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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lizzie Dearden

Shamima Begum cannot return to UK after losing appeal against citizenship removal

BBC/Joshua Baker

The decision to remove Shamima Begum’s British citizenship was lawful, a court has ruled despite finding that she may have been trafficked for sexual exploitation by Isis.

In the latest stage of the former Isis bride’s legal battle against the government, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) had considered arguments that she was made “de facto stateless”.

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