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The real scandal of the Shamima Begum citizenship case

Letters: Former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption on last week’s ruling on the home secretary’s decision to deprive Begum of her citizenship. Plus letters from Ilina Todorovska, Owen Stewart, Andrew Snowdon and Carmel Bedford

The Guardian - UK

Surge in number of Britons fighting to hold on to their citizenship

After the Shamima Begum decision, figures show dramatic increase in challenges to Home Office

The Guardian - UK

Shamima Begum has shown up courts’ deference to this government. It’s a worrying new era

The Guardian - UK

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Shamima Begum loses UK citizenship appeal

Shamima Begum has lost her legal challenge over the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship. Ms Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State (IS) in February 2015. Her British citizenship was revoked on national security…

Evening Standard

How and why did Shamima Begum lose her UK citizenship?

Begum, whose nationality was stripped after she travelled to Syria to join ISIL (ISIS), continues to fuel debate.

Al Jazeera

Lawyer angry at 'appalling' Shamima Begum decision after ex-ISIS member refused passport

Human rights lawyer Shoaib M Khan said the ruling was "disappointing" as Shamima Begum is still stuck in a camp in northern Syria, following the news that she would not be able to get British citizenship back

Daily Mirror

UK should ‘take responsibility’ for Shamima Begum, say campaigners

Amnesty International UK says the government should not have the power to 'banish a citizen', particularly when it's someone who was 'seriously exploited as a child'

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Shamima Begum will be ‘in tears’ in her tent after citizenship refusal, says filmmaker

Andrew Drury, 56, met Begum six times between 2021 and 2022, forming a connection so close the pair swapped WhatsApp messages and she told him of her mental health struggles

Daily Mirror

The Guardian view on Shamima Begum: stateless and detained in Syria

Editorial: Without being able to consider lived experience, the court came to the only judgment it could

The Guardian - UK

Shamima Begum loses bid to restore UK citizenship after joining IS

London (AFP) - A woman stripped of her British citizenship after travelling to Syria as a teenager to marry an Islamic State group fighter on Wednesday lost her legal battle to reverse the decision.

AFP

Key questions after the ruling in the Shamima Begum case

Ms Begum’s challenge to the decision to strip her of her British citizenship was dismissed on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

OPINION - Shamima Begum loses bid to regain British citizenship

There can be few more dramatic examples of the state’s power over its citizens than to strip one of their very nationality. That was the decision taken by then-home secretary Sajid Javid in February 2019 regarding Shamima Begum after she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp.

Evening Standard

Don’t judge Shamima Begum today: judge the cruel ministers who still won’t take responsibility for her

The government peddles a caricature so we don’t see her for what she is: a child trafficking victim groomed in the UK, says Maya Foa, director of the legal charity Reprieve

The Guardian - UK

Shamima Begum ruling deals bitter blow to chances of UK return

Past supreme court ruling meant Siac judges found themselves unable to contradict home secretary

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The Independent UK

Shamima Begum’s legal fight over British citizenship ‘nowhere near over’

The 23-year-old has lost a challenge against the decision to strip her of her citizenship on national security grounds.

Evening Standard

Shamima Begum: timeline of events as Isis bride launches appeal to regain UK citizenship

The straight-A student fled east London as a teenager in 2015 to join the terrorist group

The Independent UK

Who is Shamima Begum? From straight-A student to ‘stateless’ jihadi bride

The runaway schoolgirl lost her legal challenge on Wednesday over the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship.

The Independent UK

Shamima Begum loses bid to regain British citizenship

Amnesty International has criticised the ruling which followed a five-day hearing in November.

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Liverpool Echo

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

The decision was made eight years after she left the UK as a 15-year-old schoolgirl

AFP

Woman loses bid to restore UK citizenship after joining IS group

London (AFP) - A woman stripped of her British citizenship after travelling to Syria as a teenager to marry an Islamic State group fighter on Wednesday lost her legal battle to reverse the decision.

Daily Record

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

She was 15 when she travelled from Bethnal Green, east London, through Turkey and into territory controlled by the so-called Islamic State.

Irish Mirror

Shamima Begum will not be allowed to return to the UK as she 'poses a risk to national security'

ISIS bride Shamima Begum had her British citizenship revoked shortly after she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019

Reuters

Shamima Begum, British-born woman who joined IS, loses appeal over citizenship removal

A British-born woman, who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State, lost her latest appeal against the removal of her British citizenship, but her lawyers vowed to keep fighting and said the case was "nowhere near over".

Nottingham Post

Shamima Begum loses legal challenge and will be deprived of British citizenship

Shamima Begum cannot come back to the UK after the major court decision

Wales Online

Shamima Begum loses British citizenship battle

Ms Begum left the UK when she was just 15

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