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Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

A legal battle for British citizenship

Published on: 22 February, 2023
Shamima Begum travelled from the UK to Syria in 2015 aged 15 [File: Laura Lean/WPA Pool/Getty Images] Aljazeera.

Shamima Begum travelled from the UK to Syria in 2015 aged 15 [File: Laura Lean/WPA Pool/Getty Images] Aljazeera.

Ruling expected by the Special Immigration Appeals Tribunal in the Shamima Begum case.

She is set to find out if she has won her appeal against being stripped of her British citizenship.

Begum was 15 when she traveled from east London, through Turkey, and into territory controlled by the so-called Islamic State with two other schoolgirls in 2015.

Her British citizenship was revoked on national security grounds shortly after she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019.

She has been locked in a legal battle with the Government ever since in an attempt to get her citizenship restored.

Aljazeera.