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Jess Glass & Rachel Hagan & Jon Brady

Ex-ISIS bride Shamima Begum loses legal bid to return to the UK

Shamima Begum has lost a legal challenge over the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship.

Ms Begum was 15 when she travelled from Bethnal Green, east London, through Turkey and into territory controlled by the so-called Islamic State (IS). Her British citizenship was revoked shortly after she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019.

The now 23-year-old brought a challenge against the Home Office over this decision at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), a specialist tribunal which hears challenges to decisions to remove someone's British citizenship on national security grounds. Following a five-day hearing in November, the tribunal dismissed her challenge on Wednesday.

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