Runaway schoolgirl who joined IS cannot return to Britain

26-2-2021 Cyprus Mail CyprusMail Cool

Runaway schoolgirl who joined IS cannot return...

A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State should not be allowed to return to Britain to challenge the government taking away her citizenship because she poses a security risk, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday.

Shamima Begum left London in 2015 when she was 15 and went to Syria via Turkey with two school friends where she married an IS fighter.

Begum, 21, who is being held in a detention camp in Syria, was stripped her of her British citizenship in 2019 on national security grounds, but the Court of Appeal ruled last year she could only have a fair...

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Runaway schoolgirl who joined IS cannot return to Britain

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