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Tristan Kirk

Refugee held in same camp as Shamima Begum wrongly stripped of UK citizenship

A woman being held in the same Syrian refugee camp as Shamima Begum was wrongly stripped of her citizenship by the British government, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

The 51-year-old woman, who was born in the UK and also has Pakistani nationality, was deprived of British citizenship in December 2019, while she was detained in the Camp Al-Roj camp in northeast Syria.

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