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Evening Standard
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Martin Bentham

Shamima Begum loses UK citizenship appeal

Shamima Begum on Wednesday suffered a major blow in her battle to return to the UK as a court rejected her claims that she was unlawfully stripped of her British citizenship.

Judges at the special immigration appeals commission said they did not accept that the Home Office had acted unlawfully in removing Ms Begum’s nationality because she was a trafficking victim when she travelled to Syria with two other Bethnal Green schoolgirls to join Islamic State in 2015.

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