The British National Shamima Begum, Who Joined ISIS At The Age Of 15, Lost Her Petition For UK Citizenship (Watch Video)

The British National Shamima Begum, Who Joined ISIS At The Age Of 15, Lost Her Petition For UK Citizenship (Watch Video)

The British citizen Shamima Begum, who fled the country at the age of 15 to join ISIS, has lost her appeal against the UK government’s decision to remove her British citizenship.

The decision addresses whether Begum’s citizenship was improperly removed rather than whether she can go back to Britain.

After a five-day hearing in November, during which her attorneys claimed the UK Home Office had a duty to look into whether she was a victim of trafficking before stripping her of her citizenship, Judge Robert Jay issued the verdict on Wednesday, February 22.

Begum, who is now 23 and residing in a camp in northern Syria, traveled there in 2015 along with two classmates to join the ISIS terrorist organization. After begging with the UK government to grant her permission to travel back to her own country for the birth of her kid, she reappeared in February 2019 and gained notoriety as a “ISIS bride” in the process.