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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.
Ex-IS bride Shamima Begum has lost her appeal to have her UK citizenship restored, after she travelled to Syria in February 2015 to join the Islamic State group.
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 was one of three British schoolgirls who travelled to IS-controlled Syria in 2015.
![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".
Shamima Begum said losing her children to conditions of war sent her mental health spiralling.
The case of Shamima Begum will be heard by the UK's Supreme Court on Monday.