{"id":18224,"date":"2021-02-26T05:51:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T10:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=18224"},"modified":"2021-02-26T05:51:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T10:51:53","slug":"shamima-begum-cannot-return-to-uk-supreme-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/02\/26\/shamima-begum-cannot-return-to-uk-supreme-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamima Begum cannot return to UK, Supreme Court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria to join the Islamic State group as a teenager, will not be allowed to return and fight her citizenship case, the Supreme Court has ruled.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The court said in a unanimous ruling that her rights were not breached when she was refused permission to return.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Begum, 21, wants to come back to challenge the home secretary’s decision to remove her British nationality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She is in a camp controlled by armed guards in northern Syria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls left the UK and travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State group in February 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Two years ago, the then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped Ms Begum of her citizenship on national security grounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Last July,\u00a0the Court of Appeal ruled<\/a>\u00a0that the only fair way forward was to allow her into the UK because she could not effectively appeal against the decision from the camp in northern Syria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Home Office subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court to reconsider the Court of Appeal’s judgement, arguing that allowing her to return to the UK\u00a0“would create significant national security risks”.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Friday, Lord Reed, president of the Supreme Court, said the government had been entitled to prevent Ms Begum from returning to the UK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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