Shamima Begum's UK citizenship should be restored, court told

Woman who fled as schoolgirl to join Isis cannot fight fair appeal from Syria, lawyers say

Shamima Begum, the woman who left Britain as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State, cannot effectively challenge the government's decision to deprive her of British citizenship while she is in a detention camp in northern Syria, the court of appeal has been told.

At the start of a two-day online hearing, her lawyers challenged a ruling by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) this year that she has not been rendered stateless because she is entitled to Bangladeshi citizenship.