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Court of Appeal judges rule teenager who ran away to join Isis should not have citizenship restored, but her lawyers vow not to stop fighting for her return to the UK

Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Shamima Begum, the London-born Bangladeshi-origin woman, who fled the UK as a 15-year-old schoolgirl to join the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist network, on Friday lost yet another legal bid to regain her British citizenship and return to the UK from Syria. World News | Bangladeshi-origin ISIS Bride Shamima Begum Loses Appeal to Regain British Citizenship.

Ms Begum travelled to Syria to join ISIS in 2015 aged 15 and her citizenship was revoked on national security grounds shortly after she was found in Syria.

Extremist Yago Riedijk was a 21-year-old ISIS fighter when he wed the 15-year-old Londoner in Raqqa, Syria, after they had spent 10 minutes speaking to see if we clicked.

The dismissal of Shamima Begum’s Court of Appeal challenge over the removal of her British citizenship is the latest development in the long-running legal saga that […]

This morning both the firms lawyers Gareth Peirce (right) and Daniel Furner (left) stood outside The Royal Courts of Justice after three judges dismissed the bid.

Shamima Begum travelled to Syria in 2015 as a schoolgirl and later had her citizenship revoked on national security grounds after being found in a refugee camp in February 2019

Previously in 2022, the UK Supreme Court upheld the decision to bar the now 24-year-old from returning to the UK.

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Court of Appeal says government's decision to strip citizenship from Londoner stranded for more than five years in a Syrian detention camp was lawful