Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK to challenge the deprivation of her British citizenship, senior judges have ruled.
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Ms Begum – one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group (IS) – travelled to Syria in February 2015 and lived under IS rule for more than three years before she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February last year.
Then home secretary Sajid Javid revoked her British citizenship on national security grounds later that month.
Ms Begum, now 20, took legal action against the Home Office, claiming the decision was unlawful because it rendered her stateless and exposed her to a real risk of death or inhuman and degrading treatment.
On Thursday morning Lord Justice Flaux, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Singh ruled that Ms Begum should be allowed to return to the UK to pursue her appeal, albeit subject to controls imposed by the Secretary of State. The tribunal also found that she “cannot play any meaningful part in her appeal and that, to that extent, the appeal will not be fair and effective”, but ruled that “it does not follow that her appeal succeeds”.
Call me cynical, it was a terrible thing in the young but now I have the excuse of age, but once she is back in the UK whatever the decision about her citizenship she will never be taken into custody and deported. If the three Rochdale ringleaders, convicted of appalling crimes and shorn of their right to remain in this country are still wandering round Rochdale, shopping in ASDA and terrifying their victims in the aisles then this simpering little hijabette is secure.
Shamima Begum’s solicitor Daniel Furner, from Birnberg Peirce, said in a statement after the ruling: “The court’s judgment today is an important reminder that fairness and the rule of law remain cornerstones of the British legal system and that they set the legal limits within which the Home Secretary may act. Terrorist solicitor Gareth Peirce was always going to be a prime mover here.
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One Response
I would like to comment on this ruling but I would be moderated for obscenity . I welcome the ruling as much as a chef welcomes a rat in the plat de resistance . I suspect Ms Begum will be equally welcome in the UK .