Shamima Begum was 15 when she left her home in east London in February 2015 and travelled to Syria with two other British schoolgirls. She married a Dutch jihadist, who was killed, and is currently in a camp for former Daesh* families in Syria.
A lawyer representing Shamima Begum has accused Home Secretary Priti Patel of “conjuring the spectre” of national security from “behind the veil” of secrecy.
Lord Pannick QC told a UK Supreme Court hearing on Tuesday, 24 September, it was “not justifiable” for Ms Patel to deprive Ms Begum of citizenship and prevent her returning to the UK to appeal against that decision on the basis of evidence which had not been disclosed to the Court of Appeal.
In February 2019 the then Home Secretary Sajid Javid, and Prime Minister Theresa May revoked her citizenship on national security grounds.
Begum married a Dutch jihadist, Yago Riedijk, soon after arriving in the Daesh's so-called Caliphate in 2015. She lost two of his children and another baby died in the refugee camp near the Iraqi border last year.
In an interview with The Times newspaper in February 2019 Ms Begum said she had “no regrets” about travelling to Syria.
But Lord Pannick pointed out to the Supreme Court on Tuesday that in a later interview, with a Daily Mail journalist, Ms Begum claimed she had only said that because she feared being attacked by former Daesh militants in the camp.
In July the Court of Appeal in London ruled that…
