Jihadi bride Shamima Begum loses legal bid to overturn decision to revoke British citizenship
JIHADI bride Shamima Begum has lost the first stage of her legal bid to overturn the Government's decision to revoke her British citizenship.
The former East London schoolgirl fled to join ISIS in Syria in 2015 before begging to be allowed to return home last year.
Begum and two school friends, all aged 15 and 16 from Bethnal Green Academy in East London, left the UK to join the terror group.
She married Dutch ISIS convert Yago Riedijk 10 days after arriving in the country, with her pals also reportedly marrying foreign IS fighters.
The teenager was later tracked down, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019. The baby died weeks later shortly after his birth.
In an interview with Sky News, she claimed that all she did while living in the so-called caliphate was “make babies” – and pleaded to be allowed to return home.
She added her mental health is suffering and she 'hated' ISIS following the deaths of her three children - a one-year-old girl, a three-month-old boy and her newborn baby.
Then Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped her of her British citizenship later that month, a decision Ms Begum's lawyers argued was unlawful as it left her stateless
Last year, Ms Begum took legal action against the Home Office at the High Court.
But a judgement by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) today found against Begum, now 20.
Judge Doron Blum, announcing the decision of the tribunal, said that the move did not breach the Home Office's "extraterritorial human rights policy by exposing Ms Begum to a real risk of death or inhuman or degrading treatment".
Begum will now appeal against the decision.
Her lawyers alleged she has been unable to mount a “fair and effective” legal challenge and was at risk of “death, inhuman or degrading treatment”.
It is claimed if she is forced to go to Bangladesh - her parents' country of origin - she could be hanged.
But the court heard there was no evidence she had ever visited Bangladesh or applied for citizenship there.
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Ms Begum's solicitor, Daniel Furner said the ruling "will be hard to explain to her".
He said: "The logic of the decision will appear baffling, accepting as it does the key underlying factual assessments of extreme danger and extreme unfairness and yet declining to provide any legal remedy."
A Home Office spokeswoman said: "The Government welcomes the judgement of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission on these preliminary issues."
