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Re: ISIS Wife Begum LOSES Another Appeal Against LOSS of UK Citizenship
ISIS Wife Shamima Begum LOSES Another Appeal Against Removal of UK Citizenship...
Begum LOSES her battle for British citizenship: Appeal judges rule against Jihadi bride who argued she was a victim of trafficking when she fled UK to join ISIS aged 15
ANOTHER 20 British ISIS Brides Could Return to UK:
Around 20 Women and 40 Children From Britain are Living in Refugee Camps in the Middle East Along With Begum
MailOnline 23 FEB 2024
Begum today lost her latest challenge over the removal of her British citizenship - dealing a heavy blow to her bid to return to the UK.
The Londoner travelled to Syria to join the terror group in 2015 aged 15 and her citizenship was revoked on national security grounds shortly after she was found in a refugee camp in February 2019.
Last year, the now 24-year-old lost a challenge against the decision at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC). Ms Begum's lawyers brought a bid to overturn that decision at the Court of Appeal, with the Home Office successfully opposing the challenge.
Ms Begum was a Primark-loving teenager when she travelled to Istanbul, Turkey, from Gatwick Airport to join ISIS with her close friends at Bethnal Green Academy - Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15.
Ignoring her familys' warnings that Syria was a 'dangerous place', the 'straight A student' married a jihadi and began life inside one of the most savage terror groups in history.
One of the key questions in Begums' story is how much she knew about ISIS atrocities before deciding to join
Timeline of her battle to return to the UK as she loses legal battle for British citizenship..
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Shamima Begum Timeline
2015
- February 17 - Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum leave their east London homes at 8am to travel to Istanbul, Turkey, from Gatwick Airport. Begum and Abase are reported missing by their families later the same day.
- February 18 - Ms Sultana is reported missing to the police.
- February 20 - The Metropolitan Police launch a public appeal for information on the missing girls who are feared to have gone on to Syria. The Met expresses concerns that the missing girls may have fled to join ISIS.
- February 21 - Four days after the girls went missing, police believe they may still be in Turkey.
- February 22 - Ms Abase's father Abase Hussen says his daughter told him she was going to a wedding on the day she disappeared.
- March 10 - It emerges that the girls funded their trip by stealing jewellery.
2016
- August 2016 - Ms Sultana, then 17, is reported to have been killed in Raqqa in May when a suspected Russian air strike obliterates her house.
2019
- February 13 - Ms Begum, then 19, tells Anthony Loyd of The Times that she wants to return to the UK to give birth to her third child.
- Speaking from the Al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Syria, Ms Begum tells the paper: 'I'm not the same silly little 15-year-old schoolgirl who ran away from Bethnal Green four years ago. And I don't regret coming here.'
- February 15 - Home secretary Sajid Javid says he 'will not hesitate' to prevent the return of Britons who travelled to join IS.
- February 17 - Ms Begum gives birth to her third child - a baby boy, Jarrah - in Al-Hawl. Her two other children, a daughter called Sarayah and a son called Jerah, have both previously died.
- February 19 - The Home Office sends Ms Begum's family a letter stating that it intends to revoke her British citizenship.
- February 20 - Ms Begum, having been shown a copy of the Home Office's letter by ITV News, describes the decision as 'unjust'.
- February 22 - Ms Begum's family write to Mr Javid asking for his help to bring her newborn son to Britain. Her sister Renu Begum, writing on behalf of the family, said the baby boy was a 'true innocent' who should not 'lose the privilege of being raised in the safety of this country'.
- Late February - Ms Begum is moved to the Al-Roj camp in north-eastern Syria, reportedly because of threats to her life made at Al-Hawl following the publication of her newspaper interviews.
- March 7 - Jarrah dies around three weeks after he was born.
- March 19 - Ms Begum's lawyers file a legal action challenging the decision to revoke her citizenship.
- April 1 - In a further interview with The Times, Ms Begum says she was 'brainwashed' and that she wants to 'go back to the UK for a second chance to start my life over again'.
- May 4 - Bangladesh's foreign minister Abdul Momen says Ms Begum could face the death penalty for involvement in terrorism if she goes to the country, adding that Bangladesh had 'nothing to do' with her.
- September 29 - Home secretary Priti Patel says there is 'no way' she will let Ms Begum return to the UK, adding: 'We cannot have people who would do us harm allowed to enter our country - and that includes this woman.'
- October 22-25 - Ms Begum's appeal against the revocation of her British citizenship begins in London. Her barrister Tom Hickman submits the decision has unlawfully rendered her stateless, and exposed her to a 'real risk' of torture or death.
2020
- February 7 - SIAC rules on Ms Begum's legal challenge.
- July 16 - Court of Appeal rules on the case and finds in Ms Begum's favour.
- November 23 - Supreme Court hears case.
2021
- February 26 - Supreme Court denies her right to enter UK to fight for British citizenship.
2022
- August 31 - The BBC trails its new ten-part podcast series, I'm Not A Monster: The Shamima Begum Story.
- November - At a five-day hearing at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC), Ms Begum's lawyers argue she was a child trafficking victim.
2023
- February 22 - Ms Begum loses her appeal to the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) against the bid to strip her of her British citizenship.
2024
February 23 - Court of Appeal judges hand down their judgment after Ms Begum appealed the SIAC's decision.
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IN FULL: Judgment in Shamima Begums’ Citizenship Appeal Bid | Cameras in Court
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