Shamima Begum loses fight to restore UK citizenship after supreme court ruling
by Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor from World news | The Guardian on (#5EPBY)
Begum, who fled as a schoolgirl to join Isis in Syria, will not be able to re-enter UK to fight case in person
Shamima Begum, who fled Britain as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State in Syria, has failed to restore her British citizenship after the supreme court ruled she had lost her case.
The judgment on Friday from the UK's highest court is a critical - and controversial - test case of the UK's policy to strip the citizenship of Britons who went to join Isis and are being detained by Syrian Kurdish groups without trial.
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