Search
1 to 10 out of 20
Results
Shamima Begum lost a court bid on Wednesday to take her case to the UK Supreme Court after being stripped of her citizenship.
Shamima Begum, who went to Syria to join the Islamic State group when she was 15, lost her latest appeal on Friday over the removal of her British citizenship.
Despite evidence that Shamima Begum was a victim of human trafficking, she continues to be demonised in the British media and public, a testament to how precarious citizenship is for racialised minorities, writes Fatima Rajina.
![Renu Begum, eldest sister of Shamima Begum, then 15, holds her sister's photo as she is interviewed by the media at New Scotland Yard, as the relatives of three missing schoolgirls believed to have fled to Syria to join Islamic State pleaded for them to return home [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/2022-07/GettyImages-464129912%20%281%29.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=31sSDihx)
Canada will look into claims that a spy working for its intelligence trafficked Shamima Begum and two other British teenagers to the Syrian border, where they entered IS-controlled territory
![Shamima Begum spoke to Good Morning Britain from a refugee camp in Syria [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/2021-09/shamima%20begum_0.PNG?h=5b9a46df&itok=RwzzkqDN)
Shamima Begum, who left her home as a 15-year-old teenager and travelled to Syria to marry an Islamic State fighter, is urging the Britain to allow her to return and be given a 'fair trial'.
The lawyer for the former IS bride, who is challenging a decision to revoke her British citizenship on national security grounds, claimed Begum was "a child trafficked to Syria for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced marriage".
Comment: The Home Secretary's decision to revoke Shamima Begum's British citizenship is a major own goal, writes Muhammad Idrees Ahmad.
Comment: Britain created the circumstances under which Begum chose to leave. This is our mess to clean up, writes Ruqaya Izzidien.
Shamima Begum who went to Syria as a teenager to join Islamic State was likely 'a child victim of trafficking', her lawyers tell a London court.
Comment: It's now not just the government that has undermined the certainty of our citizenship, but the justice system too, writes Aniqah Choudhri.