Shamima Begum Loses Supreme Court Appeal Against Removal of Citizenship

Jihadi bride Shamima Begum will not be allowed to challenge the removal of her citizenship at the Supreme Court, justices have ruled. Lords Red, Hodge, and Lloyd-Jones said in their decision published on Wednesday that Begum’s request was denied because “the grounds of appeal do not raise an arguable point of law.” Begum’s lawyers had argued in a previous challenge at the Court of Appeal that the removal of her citizenship in 2019 due to national security concerns was unlawful on four grounds, including that Begum had a common law right to appeal to the home secretary in person before she was deprived of her citizenship....