ISIS bride Shamima Begum has been blocked by top judges from returning to the UK to fight for her British citizenship, in an emphatic victory for the government’s battle against terrorism.
Begum was a 15-year-old schoolgirl when she ran away from her east London family home to join Islamic State terrorists in Syria in February 2015.
When she was discovered in a Syrian refugee camp in 2019, then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped her of British citizenship on national security grounds.
The Court of Appeal ruled last July that Begum should be allowed back into the UK to fight an appeal, but when the legal battle reached the Supreme Court the government argued Begum’s return would increase the risk of a terrorist attack on British soil.
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