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Shamima Begum case shows how little power courts have to check government national security decisions

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.

The Conversation

Terror watchdog warns that Shamima Begum should be allowed back in the UK

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

Manchester Evening News

Let Shamima Begum come back to the UK, terror watchdog says

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

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Shamima Begum should be allowed to come back to UK, says terror watchdog

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

The Independent UK

Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to UK – terrorism adviser

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

The Guardian - UK

Shamima Begum should be allowed home, says terror watchdog

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

Evening Standard

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

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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

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 Her British citizenship was revoked on national security…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'

Wales Online

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

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The Guardian - UK

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 Independent UK

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.

Evening Standard

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.

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

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.

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

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.

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