Shamima Begum can return to UK to struggle citizenship, Court docket of Enchantment guidelines

Shamima Begum has received a authorized battle to be allowed to return dwelling to struggle the federal government’s resolution to take away her UK citizenship.

Ms Begum, now 20, was one in every of three schoolgirls who left London to hitch the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015.

Her citizenship was revoked by the Dwelling Workplace on safety grounds after she was present in a refugee camp in 2019.

The Court docket of Enchantment stated she had been denied a good listening to as a result of she couldn’t make her case from the camp.

The judgement means the federal government should now discover a strategy to permit the 20-year-old to seem in courtroom in London regardless of repeatedly saying it could not help eradicating her from Syria.

Daniel Furner, Ms Begum’s solicitor, stated: “Ms Begum has by no means had a good alternative to offer her facet of the story. She shouldn’t be afraid of dealing with British justice, she welcomes it. However the stripping of her citizenship with out a probability to clear her identify shouldn’t be justice, it’s the reverse.”

Ms Begum had argued that the federal government’s resolution to revoke her citizenship was illegal as a result of it left her stateless.

Underneath worldwide legislation, it is just authorized to revoke somebody’s citizenship if a person is entitled to citizenship of one other nation.

At a listening to on the Court docket of Enchantment final month, her lawyer additionally argued that Ms Begum, who stays within the camp in northern Syria, couldn’t successfully problem the choice whereas she was barred from returning to the UK.

In February, a tribunal dominated that the choice to take away Ms Begum’s citizenship was lawful as a result of she was “a citizen of Bangladesh by descent” on the time.

Ms Begum is known to have a declare to Bangladeshi nationality by way of her mom.