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Britain
UK Supreme Court to hear case over 'ISIS bride' return
2020-11-24
[RUDAW.NET] Britannia's Supreme Court will on Monday hear the case of a woman stripped of her UK citizenship after joining the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) in Syria, who wants to return to appeal the ruling.

The government in July won its bid to have the country's highest court consider whether Shamima Begum, 20, should be allowed to return to the UK to pursue an appeal over her revoked citizenship.

Earlier in July, three senior Court of Appeal judges ruled Begum should be allowed to come to Britannia for the legal challenge.

But one judge said the Supreme court should consider the government's appeal because it raised "points of law of general public importance."

Begum was 15 when she and two other schoolgirls from Bethnal Green in east London left home to join the jihadist group on February 17, 2015.

She claims she married a Dutch convert soon after arriving in ISIS-held territory. She was discovered, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February last year.

Her newborn baby died soon after she gave birth. Two of her other children also died under ISIS rule.

The then-home secretary, Sajid Javid, annulled Begum's British citizenship on national security grounds.

That prompted her to take legal action, arguing the decision was unlawful as it had made her stateless and exposed her to the risk of death or inhuman and degrading treatment.

British-born Begum is of Bangladeshi heritage. But Bangladesh's foreign minister has said he will not consider granting her citizenship.

Begum's high-profile flight with her friends from Britannia to Syria via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
in 2015 was followed by an international manhunt. Her disappearance focused efforts to prevent disaffected British Moslems from leaving their homes to join ISIS.

Her discovery in Al Roj camp following the group's defeat in Syria and the subsequent months of legal wrangling over Begum's return has regularly prompted outcries in England's right-wing press.

While those opposing her admission to the United Kingdom have argued she is a security threat, groups calling for her to be allowed to return have said greater human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
principles are at stake and that Begum should answer for her crimes in Britannia
Related:
Shamima Begum: 2020-10-08 Two Islamic State jihadists have been extradited to the US from Iraq to face trial for the murder & beheading of American citizens
Shamima Begum: 2020-08-20 US A-G won't seek death penalty for British ISIS execution squad members
Shamima Begum: 2020-07-24 British Daesh terrorists dubbed the ‘Beatles’ admit mistreatment of US aid worker
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