Shamima Begum, left the UK in 2015 to join the so-called Islamic State in Syria. In February last year, former Home Secretary Sajid Javid revoked her British citizenship due to her involvement with the organisation. Begum's case to reverse the government's decision was dismissed in February, but her lawyers are launching a new appeal.
Shamima Begum, the woman who left the UK as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State, believes her British citizenship should be restored because she cannot have a fair appeal against the government's decision to strip her of it, the Court of Appeal has been told.
At the beginning of a two-day online hearing, her lawyers challenged a ruling by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) this year that says she is not rendered stateless as she is entitled to Bangladeshi citizenship.
Begum was one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria in February 2015, to join Daesh* where she lived under its rule for more than three years.
She was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February last year, prompting then home secretary Sajid Javid to revoke her British citizenship later that month.
Last year Begum took legal action against the Home Office and the decision of Siac, which hears challenges to decisions to remove a person's British citizenship on national security grounds.
But the Home Office argues that the reason Ms Begum could not “fully engage” with her appeal “was…
