The Latest Breaking News from Shamima Begum

Jonathan Hall KC said failing to permit her to return could lead the UK to be an ‘outlier’ in Europe.

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), a court that specialises in national security cases, has upheld the home secretary’s decision to cancel Shamima Begum’s citizenship. The 23-year-old was deprived of her citizenship in 2019, four years after leaving the UK aged 15 to join Islamic State in Syria.

British women who join the Islamic State should be allowed home, Jonathan Hall KC says

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

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

Issues related to national security have always been hard to crack, but judges are unwilling to consider human rights, says barrister Conor Gearty

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 Her British citizenship was revoked on national security…

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

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