Shamima Begum Loses 1st Bid to Challenge Removal of Citizenship at Supreme Court

Published on March 25, 2024

Jihadi bride Shamima Begum has lost her first bid to challenge the removal of her British citizenship at the Supreme Court. A judicial spokesperson confirmed on Monday that Ms. Begum had asked the Court of Appeal for permission to take her case to the Supreme Court, but was refused. Ms. Begum may now ask the Supreme Court directly for permission to have her case heard. In 2105, 15-year-old Ms. Begum and her school friends Amira Abase, also 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, left their homes in east London and travelled, via Turkey, to Syria to join the ISIS terror group. She married Dutch jihadi Yago Riedijk and had three children with him, but her husband and the children all died. She was found in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019....