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Revoking nationality of Shamima Begum is form of capital punishment, government told

Revoking the nationality of Shamima Begum is a form of capital punishment, leaving her as ‘the breathing dead’, the Government was told.

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.

Jonathan Hall KC argues that Shamima Begum and other British women like her should be allowed back in the UK

Jonathan Hall KC, the reviewer of terrorism legislation, is expected to say Britain should match allies such as the United States

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

Government terrorism laws reviewer Jonathan Hall KC joins growing number of voices opposing exclusion

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