One woman who ran away from the United Kingdom as a teenager to join the Islamic State will not be allowed back into the nation to fight for her citizenship.
The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Friday that Shamima Begum, who is 21 and ran away with two other teenage girls, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase, to Syria in 2015, will not be allowed to return to the country to appeal the revocation of her citizenship, which occurred in 2019.
SHAMIMA BEGUM IS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF HER BABY
“The appropriate response to the problem in the present case is for the deprivation hearing to be stayed — or postponed — until Ms. Begum is in a position to play an effective part in it without the safety of the public being compromised,” said Justice Robert Reed, the president of the U.K. Supreme Court. “That is not a perfect solution, as it is not known how long it may be before that is possible. But there is no perfect solution to a dilemma of the present kind.”
Begum was stripped of her U.K. citizenship in 2019 by then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid upon being discovered in a refugee camp in northern Syria.
The U.K. Supreme Court’s ruling overturned one from the U.K. Court of Appeals, whom Reed said made four errors in 2020 when it ruled that she should be allowed to return to the country.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
“I’m not the same silly little 15-year-old schoolgirl who ran away from Bethnal Green four years ago,” Begum said in a 2019 interview with the Times of London, where she also said she didn’t regret going to Syria. She married a convicted terrorist and had three of his babies. All three of them have reportedly died.
