Earlier in July, Shamima Begum was granted the right to return to the UK. (FILE)
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The UK government was granted leave to appeal a court ruling on Friday allowing ISIS wife Shamima Begum, born in London, to return to Britain to challenge the withdrawal of her British citizenship.
Begum, of Bangladeshi descent, 20, was one of three schoolgirls who fled London to join ISIS in Syria in 2015.
The UK Court of Appeal ruled that the case had to be taken to the Supreme Court before she was allowed to return to the country because the case raised a point of law of public importance that only the highest court can resolve.
Sir James Eadie, representing the Home Office, told the court that there was a “big problem” in the case: deciding what should happen when a person cannot have a fair remedy to have been stripped of her citizenship “following a trip abroad. and aligning herself with terrorist groups”.
He said it was “a matter of real and urgent public importance” which was “perhaps the central democratic issue of our time”.
Lady Justice King, head of the three-judge panel of the UK Court of Appeal, which includes Lord Justice Rabinder Singh of Indian descent, allowed the appeal and also said they were separately firing the newspaper ‘ ‘The Sun’ to Attorney General over potential contempt of court by posting an article on the previous High Court judgment in the case earlier this month, allowing Begum to return for his legal fight in the UK, before it was announced in court.
The justices also allowed Ms Begum’s lawyers to challenge a ruling that the lack of a fair and effective appeal against the citizenship decision did not necessarily mean it had to be reinstated, provided the Supreme Court accepts that part. of the case.
Earlier in July, Ms Begum was granted the right to return to the UK and continue her legal fight against the government’s revocation of her UK citizenship for security reasons.
Ms Begum was one of three schoolgirls who fled London to join ISIS in Syria in 2015. Court of Appeal judges ruled that she should be allowed to return to her case and fight.
“Fairness and justice must, on the facts of this case, take precedence over national security concerns, so leave to appeal should be allowed,” they said earlier.
The judges also said national security concerns about her “could be resolved and dealt with if she returned to the UK”.
Britain’s Home Office had earlier said the decision was “very disappointing” and would seek leave to appeal.
Ms Begum, who was 15 when she secretly fled her home in east London in 2015 to join the terror group in Syria, lives in a camp run by Kurdish forces in northern Syria. The UK Court of Appeal said she was denied a fair hearing because she could not make a case from the camp.
A special UK immigration court ruled in February that she was an original Bangladeshi citizen, meaning she had not been made homeless by the former UK Home Secretary’s ruling Sajid Javid to revoke his British citizenship in 2019.
Ms Begum was found in northern Syria in February last year by The Times newspaper, when she was nine months pregnant with her third child, who later died. Javid stripped her of her citizenship soon after on the grounds that she could claim Bangladeshi citizenship through her parents.
His successor as Home Secretary Priti Patel also backed the move and ruled out the prospect of his return to the UK.
“We cannot allow people who would do us harm to enter our country ~ CHECK ~ and that includes this woman,” Ms Patel said, referring to Begum, who had pleaded with the authorities to allow her to return to her home. family in the country. UNITED KINGDOM.
Under UK law, a person can legally have their citizenship revoked, but they cannot become stateless. The UK government maintains Ms Begum has access to dual Bangladeshi citizenship through her parents, although the Bangladeshi government has since denied these rights.
Ms Begum left the UK in February 2015 and lived under ISIS for over three years. She became known as a so-called ISIS bride because she was married to Yago Riedijk, a Dutch ISIS fighter, soon after arriving in Syria.
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