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UK Justice Denies Return of Young Woman Who Joined ISIS

2021-02-26T14:58:53.342Z


The Government revoked the nationality of Shamima Begum, 21, for "security reasons" A sister of Shamina Begum showed a photo of her, in London in February 2015.LAURA LEAN / AFP The young Londoner Shamima Begum, who in 2015 fled to Syria with two high school classmates to join the Islamic State (ISIS), will not be able to return to the United Kingdom to appeal the government's decision to withdraw her British nationality, the Supreme Court ruled this Friday. The court, the highes


A sister of Shamina Begum showed a photo of her, in London in February 2015.LAURA LEAN / AFP

The young Londoner Shamima Begum, who in 2015 fled to Syria with two high school classmates to join the Islamic State (ISIS), will not be able to return to the United Kingdom to appeal the government's decision to withdraw her British nationality, the Supreme Court ruled this Friday.

The court, the highest judicial body in the country, ruled in favor of the Executive, who appealed a ruling issued in July by the Court of Appeals, which had authorized Begum to return to British territory to process his trial - which will now be postponed. .

The government revoked the nationality of the young woman, who is now 21 years old, “for security reasons”, when she was found in February 2019 in a Syrian refugee camp, nine months pregnant.

He also refused to return to the UK to appeal that decision, on the grounds, accepted today by the Supreme Court, that doing so would create "significant national security risks" and expose the British to "an increased risk of terrorism."

When presenting the ruling this Friday, Judge Robert Reed indicated that, since it is not considered "safe" for the young woman to return, the trial to claim her nationality should be postponed indefinitely.

"The appropriate response to the problem in the present case is that the trial on deprivation [of nationality] be postponed until Begum is in a position to play an effective part in it without jeopardizing the safety of the citizens," said the magistrate.

The judge admitted that "it is not a perfect solution, since it is not known how long it will take until that is possible."

In the ruling, the Supreme Court magistrate recognizes that the denial of nationality "can have serious consequences for the person in question", because, although he is not stateless, "he has little real connection" with the other nationality to which he has access, the from Bangladesh.

Born and raised in the UK, Shamima Begum currently lives in a refugee camp in northern Syria, where she says she married Muslim Dutch convert Yago Riedjik and had three children, all of whom have passed away.

On February 17, 2015, Begum, 15, and her friends Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, also 15, the three students from an East London high school, flew from the British capital to Istanbul to spend from there to Syria and join the jihadist group, in a case that shocked the UK.

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In February 2019, the young woman, then pregnant with her third child and with her husband in prison, declared in an interview with a correspondent for

The Times

that she wanted to return to the UK.

According to media reports, her friend Kadiza Sultana was killed in Syria in an airstrike by Russian forces in support of the Syrian government, and Amira Abase, who married an Australian-born jihadist, may still be alive.

Source: elparis

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