Shamima Begum's appeal to regain her British citizenship.

Shamima Begum, the British woman who left the UK to join ISIS in 2015 at age 15, has lost her latest appeal to regain her British citizenship and return to the UK. The Court of Appeal ruled that the decision to remove her citizenship on national security grounds in 2019 was lawful. Begum, who has been living in a detention camp in northern Syria since her discovery in a refugee camp in 2019, had argued that the UK government had failed to consider her status as a potential victim of human trafficking. However, the court concluded that the Home Secretary was not required to consider Begum as a victim of trafficking when he removed her citizenship.

February 23, 2024
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