The Court of Appeal has said former IS bride Shamima Begum may return to the UK to appeal for the return of her citizenship.
Judges said she had been denied a fair hearing because she could not make her case from a Syrian refugee camp.
Ms Begum has proved extremely divisive among some members of the UK community.
She was enticed abroad to join Islamic State, aged just 15, and married a Dutch IS fighter – with whom she had three children. They have all died.
After IS largely collapsed, she found herself in a refugee camp and appealed for the UK’s government to return her to this country, so she could rely on the National Health Service to care for her and her last child, before that child died.
But then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid instead stripped her of her UK citizenship, citing the now-20-year-old’s still-apparent enthusiasm for the bloodthirsty regime she fled the country to join.
Some said she had been groomed and did not know what she was doing; some said she knew exactly what she was about.
The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), a semi-secret court that hears national security cases, ruled that Mr Javid was right and Ms Begum could appeal for citizenship to Bangladesh, to which she may have a claim to nationality through her mother.
The Court of Appeal has overruled that judgement – but the Home Office has said it will apply for permission to appeal.
Is this a good decision? Let’s be clear – Ms Begum is not being offered her citizenship back; she’s just getting a chance to plead for it, showing that she has learned her lesson.
But has she? Or would we be allowing a viper into our collective bosom?
Let’s have a poll:
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Source: Shamima Begum can return to UK to fight for citizenship, Court of Appeal rules – BBC News
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