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Gemma Jones

Shamima Begum can never return to UK after losing court battle for citizenship

Shamima Begum can never return to UK after losing her battle for British citizenship.

The decision was made eight years after she left the UK as a 15-year-old schoolgirl to join Islamic State (ISIS). The now 23-year-old left her home in east London in 2015 with two school friends to travel to Syria and join the so-called Islamic State caliphate.

She married the notoriously hardline IS member Dutch national Yago Riedijk, 27, aged just 15 and had three children with him who all later died. Her British citizenship was revoked shortly after she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019.

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