Shamima Begum: Who is the young woman seeking to have her British citizenship restored?
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Mother who fled Britain as a schoolgirl to join terrorist militants in Syria has since appealed for forgiveness and argued she has been left ‘stateless’.
By Joe Sommerlad
Shamima Begum is set to begin her appeal against the decision to revoke her British citizenship on national security grounds.
A Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) hearing to consider her case opens on Monday at Field House tribunal centre in London and is expected to last for five days.
Ms Begum, now 23, was raised in east London by parents of Bangladeshi origin and attended Bethnal Green Academy but, as a 15-year-old schoolgirl, fled for Syria via Turkey in February 2015 alongside two friends – Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase – in order to join the Isis terrorist faction then engaged in regular attacks on European capitals and seizing territory in the Middle East.
British counter-terrorism police launched an international manhunt to find the trio but to no avail.
Ms Begum lived with the Islamist extremi...
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