“UK Has An Issue With Home Grown Terrorism” | Shamima Begum Denied Challenge To Stripped Citizenship

Shamima Begum, 24, has been denied the chance to challenge the removal of her British citizenship at the Supreme Court. Begum, who fled to Syria as a teenager in 2015 to join ISIS, had hoped to overturn the government’s decision to revoke her citizenship on national security grounds. But judges at the UK’s highest court ruled that her case “does not raise an arguable point of law,“ blocking her from appealing an earlier Court of Appeal decision. This was Begum’s last shot at reversing the decision within the UK legal system. However, her lawyers have vowed to take the fight to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Begum, who left Bethnal Green, east London, at 15, married an ISIS fighter in Syria and had three children, none of whom survived. She was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019 by then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid, leaving her stranded in a Syrian refugee camp under armed guard. Last year, Begum lost her appeal at the Special I