Shamima Begum can return to the UK to fight for citizenship, and she has every right to.

Josef Hollywood
3 min readJul 17, 2020

The Court of Appeal has ruled that Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK to fight the decision to remove her British citizenship.

Ms Begum was 15 and living in Bethnal Green, London, when she left the UK in 2015

Ms Begum, now 20, was one of three schoolgirls who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015.

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