British-born schoolgirl who joined ISIS loses appeal against citizenship removal

Shamima Begum left London in 2015 at 15 and travelled to Syria, where she married an ISIS fighter. Read more at straitstimes.com.

LONDON - A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State in Iraq and Syria lost her latest appeal against the British government’s decision to take away her citizenship on Wednesday.

Begum, now 23, challenged that decision at a hearing in London in November 2022, when her lawyers argued that Britain’s interior ministry, the Home Office, failed to investigate whether she was a “child victim of trafficking”. On Wednesday, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission – a specialist tribunal which hears appeals against decisions to remove citizenship on national security grounds – dismissed Begum’s appeal.

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