Former ISIS bride Shamima Begum has lost an appeal to have her U.K. citizenship restored.
The Special Immigration Appeals Commission, a tribunal which hears challenges to decisions to remove someone's British citizenship on national security grounds, ruled there was a"credible suspicion" that Begum was trafficked to Syria for"sexual exploitation." It said there also were"arguable breaches of duty" by state bodies in allowing her to travel to the country.
British-born Shamima Begum from Bethnal Green in London, who traveled to Syria to join ISIS at the age of 15 in 2015, is seen at the Roj Camp, where she was interred with other women who were ISIS members, November 17, 2021, in northeast Syria.But Judge Robert Jay said that evidence was"insufficient" for Begum to win the argument that the deprivation of her British citizenship failed to respect her human rights. Given that she remains in Syria, U.K.
Begum fled east London with two friends to marry ISIS fighters in Syria at a time when the group's online recruitment program lured many impressionable young people to its self-proclaimed caliphate.But her apparent lack of remorse in interviews soon after she surfaced in the refugee camp triggered criticism in Britain, including a 2019 interview in which she said she had"no regrets" about her actions.
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