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Isis Briton Shamima Begum faces move to revoke citizenship [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Isis Briton Shamima Begum faces move to revoke citizenship
Family ‘disappointed’ at Home Office decision and considering legal position, says lawyer
Kevin Rawlinson
Tue 19 Feb 2019 18.55 GMT Last modified on Tue 19 Feb 2019 19.53 GMT
The family of a teenager who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State has been told the Home Office intends to revoke her British citizenship, according to their lawyer.
Shamima Begum, who left her home in Bethnal Green, east London, at the age of 15, is in a refugee camp in Syria, where she gave birth to a boy at the weekend.
Begum, now 19, had called on the British people to have sympathy for her and asked to be allowed to return to the UK. The home secretary, Sajid Javid, responded by insisting he would do all in his power to prevent her coming back.
On Tuesday, Tasnime Akunjee, the family’s lawyer, said Begum’s relatives were “very disappointed with the Home Office’s intention to have an order made depriving Shamima of her citizenship”. He said they were “considering all legal avenues to challenge this decision”.
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Family ‘disappointed’ at Home Office decision and considering legal position, says lawyer
Kevin Rawlinson
Tue 19 Feb 2019 18.55 GMT Last modified on Tue 19 Feb 2019 19.53 GMT
The family of a teenager who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State has been told the Home Office intends to revoke her British citizenship, according to their lawyer.
Shamima Begum, who left her home in Bethnal Green, east London, at the age of 15, is in a refugee camp in Syria, where she gave birth to a boy at the weekend.
Begum, now 19, had called on the British people to have sympathy for her and asked to be allowed to return to the UK. The home secretary, Sajid Javid, responded by insisting he would do all in his power to prevent her coming back.
On Tuesday, Tasnime Akunjee, the family’s lawyer, said Begum’s relatives were “very disappointed with the Home Office’s intention to have an order made depriving Shamima of her citizenship”. He said they were “considering all legal avenues to challenge this decision”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/19/isis-briton-shamima-begum-to-have-uk-citizenship-revoked
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