Shamima Begum loses first stage of appeal against citizenship removal
Former schoolgirl who went to Syria to join Islamic State had citizenship revoked a year ago
Shamima Begum, the woman who left Britain as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State in Syria, has lost the initial stage of her appeal against the Home Office’s move to revoke her citizenship and prevent her from returning to London.
A judgment by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) found against Begum, now 20, on three grounds, including that she had not been improperly deprived of her citizenship.