Shamima Begum
Shamima Begum is a young women from the United Kingdom, who stirred controversy after traveling to Daesh territory, and marrying a jihadi fighter, while still a 15-year-old teenager, and then requesting return to the UK.[1][2][3][4]
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Begum's husband, a citizen of The Netherlands, Yago Riedijk, surrendered to fighters allied to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).[1]
Counter-terrorism experts predict Begum will be arrested, when she arrives in the UK.[1][2]
Commentators were critical of Begum's lack of remorse.[1][5] Her family defended her, due to her age.[1]
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Sajid Javid, the United Kingdom's Home Secretary, the minister responsible for internal security, said he may bar her from returning to the UK, even though it is the country of her birth.[1][2]
Begum said she had two children, in Daesh, who died during the war.[2]
Begum told The Times that her child would be taken from her, in the UK.[4]
Stripped of UK citizenship
Although she had been born and raised in the United Kingdom, and was a citizen of the united Kingdom, she was also entitled to Bangladeshi citizenship, through her parents.[6] The UK government decided it would strip UK citizenship from Begum, and every individual with any kind of association with Daesh, who was entitled to dual citizenship.
2022 appeal of the citizenship removal
In Nobember 2022 a court in the United Kingdom heard an appeal to restore her UK citizenship.[6] Her lawyers asserted the Government had failed to properly look into her case, and that, if they had done so, they would have classified her as a child who was a victim of sexual trafficking.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Vikram Dodd and Esther Addley (2019-02-15). "Shamima Begum may have criminalised herself, says senior terrorism officer: Family calls for her return to UK and considers legal action to stop government blocking it". The Guardian (UK). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/15/mi6-chief-britons-joined-isis-cannot-stopped-returning-shamima-begum. Retrieved 2019-02-15. "In 2015, Begum left with two school friends from their home in Bethnal Green to join Isis in Syria. She said this week that she did not regret her decision to go to Syria, but that she was nine months pregnant and wanted to come home to 'live quietly with [her] child'."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "IS teen's wish to return stirs UK debate over jihadi brides". France 24 (London). 2019-02-15. https://www.france24.com/en/20190215-teens-wish-return-stirs-uk-debate-over-jihadi-brides. Retrieved 2019-02-15. "The Times newspaper managed to find an unrepentant Begum -- now 19 and about to give birth for the third time after seeing her first two children die -- at a refugee camp in eastern Syria."
- ↑ "Shamima Begum: IS teen's return to UK 'could be prevented'". BBC News. 2019-02-15. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47248555. Retrieved 2019-02-15. "Ms Begum, who is pregnant, told the paper she had no regrets but wanted to have her baby in the UK."
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Shamima Begum: Family of pregnant IS teen plead for return". BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47260916. Retrieved 2019-02-15. "Her family, from east London, said the 19-year-old's unborn baby is "a total innocent" and had the right to grow up in the "peace and security" of the UK."
- ↑ "Teen’s wish to return stirs U.K. debate over Daesh brides". The Daily Star (London). 2019-02-16. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2019/Feb-16/476711-teens-wish-to-return-stirs-uk-debate-over-daesh-brides.ashx. Retrieved 2019-02-25. "But former MI6 foreign intelligence service chief Richard Barrett argued on Begum’s behalf in an opinion piece for the left-leaning Guardian paper."
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Mathew Weaver (2022-11-21). "Shamima Begum may have been a victim of child trafficking, court told: Lawyers for 23-year-old who left UK to join Islamic State in 2015 challenge ‘hasty’ decision to revoke citizenship". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/21/shamima-begum-may-have-been-a-victim-of-child-trafficking-court-told. Retrieved 2022-11-21. "Begum’s lawyers said in written arguments that the Home Office had revoked her citizenship 'without seeking to investigate and determine, still less consider, whether she was a child victim of trafficking'."
