Shamima Begum

A woman who left London as a teenager to join the Islamic State is due to find out whether she has won an appeal against the decision to remove her British ...

"Likewise, reasonable people will differ as to the threat she posed in February 2019 to the national security of the United Kingdom, and as to how that threat should be balanced against all countervailing considerations. He continued: "If asked to evaluate all the circumstances of Ms Begum's case, reasonable people with knowledge of all the relevant evidence will differ, in particular in relation to the issue of the extent to which her travel to Syria was voluntary and the weight to be given to that factor in the context of all others. He said: "The commission has fully recognised the considerable force in the submissions advanced on behalf of Ms Begum that the Secretary of State's conclusion, on expert advice, that Ms Begum travelled voluntarily to Syria is as stark as it is unsympathetic.

The 23-year-old loses her appeal on national security grounds and means she cannot return to the UK.

Mr Javid also welcomed the ruling. This isn't the first time a legal challenge by Ms Begum's lawyers has failed. A spokesman for the Home Office said it was "pleased" with the outcome, adding: "The government's priority remains maintaining the safety and security of the UK and we will robustly defend any decision made in doing so." "If asked to evaluate all the circumstances of Ms Begum's case, reasonable people with knowledge of all the relevant evidence will differ, in particular in relation to the issue of the extent to which her travel to Syria was voluntary and the weight to be given to that factor in the context of all others," said the judge. "The commission concluded that there was a credible suspicion that Ms Begum had been trafficked to Syria," he said in his summary. Shamima Begum has lost her challenge over the decision to deprive her of British citizenship despite a "credible" case she was trafficked.

The former IS bride has been embroiled in a battle with the British legal system – she lost her latest legal challenge over the decision to deprive her of ...

She told the podcast she accepted she is viewed “as a danger, as a risk”, but blamed her portrayal in the media. Ms Begum said there was “no evidence” she was a key player in preparing terrorist acts and was prepared to prove her innocence in court. She was dealt a fresh blow when the Supreme Court ruled she could not come back to the UK – leading to her begging the British public for forgiveness. They had three children together, who all later died from malnourishment or disease. the former IS bride has been embroiled in a battle with the British legal system – she lost her latest legal challenge over the decision to deprive her of her British citizenship on Wednesday. In the same month, she was stripped of her British citizenship after announcing her desire to return to the UK with her then-unborn third child.

Begum, 23, loses bid to overturn 2019 decision to revoke her citizenship on national security grounds.

Canada and the UK declined to comment on the allegations, as is routine for security issues involving intelligence agencies. She was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019. “But this is not the end of the legal challenge that she can bring, she can go to the Court of Appeal here in the UK and the Supreme Court after that,” he added.

The 23-year-old is now unlikely to be able to return to the UK.

She joined the Islamic State terrorist group, marrying a fellow member shortly after her arrival in Syria. At a secret hearing in November, Begum challenged the removal of her citizenship by the U.K. Her citizenship was removed as the government judged her to be a threat to national security.

The semi-secret Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) decided today that the revocation of her citizenship in 2019 was lawful. Mr Justice Jay told the ...

“It only highlights the complexity of the issues and is one step in a long journey in Begum’s cancellation of citizenship proceedings. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission has decided today that the cancellation of her citizenship was lawful, which means it was within the decision making powers of the Secretary of State as per Section 40 of British Nationality Act 1981. The semi-secret Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) decided today that the revocation of her citizenship in 2019 was lawful.

Responding to news that Shamima Begum has lost her appeal at the Special Immigration Appeals Tribunal over the stripping of her UK citizenship, ...

Responding to news that Shamima Begum has lost her appeal at the Special Immigration Appeals Tribunal over the stripping of her UK citizenship, Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, said:

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 ...

[Shamima Begum](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/shamima-begum) – something British courts are eminently capable of doing if one day the Crown Prosecution Service decides there is a case to answer – we should judge the government’s failure to take responsibility. Each time one of our allies brings its nationals home, it shows up the UK government’s policy for what it really is: a political posture. There is a growing consensus that the UK’s refusal to repatriate is a failed policy, bad for national and global security. [unlawfully detained without trial](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/10/british-women-and-children-detained-in-syria-failed-by-uk-government-inquiry-finds) in north-east Syria. Reprieve’s research [has shown](https://reprieve.org/uk/2021/04/30/trafficked-to-syria/) that the majority of the women were trafficked by IS, some when they were children. Rather than acknowledge this, or even engage with the debate, the government would rather focus on a caricature of Begum. Despite finding that she was probably groomed and trafficked by Islamic State (IS) at the age of 15, the commission reluctantly found that it could not grant her appeal. Today the commission agreed. This is bunk, a political posture in the absence of a policy. Most of the adults have been stripped of citizenship. [Syria](https://www.theguardian.com/world/syria) by herself; that there is credible suspicion she was trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation; and that UK institutions are likely to have failed in their duty to protect her. The judges accepted that “as a matter of basic common sense” Begum was groomed in the UK; that it was not plausible that she could have organised her travel to

The British intelligence which led then-home secretary, Sajid Javid, to remove her citizenship in 2019, remains classified, perhaps for good reason. The result, ...

[extradited to Bangladesh](https://news.sky.com/story/is-teen-shamima-begums-baby-can-be-british-citizen-suggests-sajid-javid-11642889) (the country Britain says she is now a citizen of). It is an open prison. There is also the issue of whether she would be convicted if she was allowed to return. She conceded she would almost certainly go straight to prison if she was to return to Britain, and said she was guilty of going to Syria, but rejected allegations she was involved in terrorist activity and said she was groomed as a young teenager. She has used interviews with me, and other media outlets, as an opportunity to put forward her side of the story, but - unlike other British women in her situation - she's put herself in the spotlights of infamy and you could argue she hasn't helped herself in doing so. [Shamima Begum loses legal case over British citizenship and return to UK](https://news.sky.com/story/shamima-begum-loses-legal-case-over-british-citizenship-and-return-to-uk-12816584) [Former IS bride insists she 'didn't hate Britain' when she fled to Syria](https://news.sky.com/story/shamima-begum-is-bride-insists-she-didnt-hate-britain-when-she-fled-to-syria-and-now-wants-to-face-trial-in-uk-12475239)

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, ...

Although court found there was 'credible suspicion' that she was trafficked for sexual exploitation as a child, it was not enough for her to win her appeal.

Every possible avenue to challenge this decision will be urgently pursued.” Ms Begum remains in unlawful, arbitrary and indefinite detention without trial in a Syrian camp. Money from shares contributes directly to keep our paper thriving. However the judge added that the commission was concerned by the security services’ “apparent downplaying of the significance of radicalisation and grooming, in stating that what happened to Ms Begum is not unusual.” “But the real point here is that, in the light of Begum, this is exactly the sort of issue that lies within the judgement of the Secretary of State and not the commission.” In its judgement, the commission concludes that there was credible suspicion that Ms Begum was trafficked to Syria for the purposes of sexual exploitation as a child.