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2019-02-21 Britain
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British ISIS bride stripped of citizenship after begging to come home, Banglas reject also - maybe Holland?
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 [NYPOST] The UK on Tuesday revoked the citizenship of the British teenager who ran off to join ISIS in 2015 and begged to be allowed home last week for the sake of her baby, according to a report.
The British Home Office broke the news in a letter sent to the family of 19-year-old Shamima Begum and obtained by ITV News.
"Please find enclosed papers that relate to a decision taken by the Home Secretary, to deprive your daughter, Shamima Begum, of her British citizenship," the letter reads. "In light of the circumstances of your daughter, the notice of the Home Secretary’s decision has been served of file today (19th February), and the order removing her British citizenship has subsequently been made."
The letter goes on to say that Begum has the right to appeal the decision.
Her family’s lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, said his clients were "disappointed" by the government’s decision and were "considering all legal avenues to challenge the decision."
Begum was 15 when she and two other students at the Bethnal Green Academy in East London skipped town and traveled to Syria to join the terrorist group.
Last week, she declared that she wished to return home for the sake of her child, who was born Sunday in a Syrian refugee camp.
"I’m not the same silly little 15-year-old schoolgirl who bravely ran away from Bethnal Green four years ago. And I don’t regret coming here," the heavily pregnant Begum told the UK Times last week.
"I feel a lot of people should have sympathy for me, for everything I’ve been through. You know, I didn’t know what I was getting into when I left," she added in an interview with Sky News Sunday, where she sat with her newborn.
"I was hoping that maybe for the sake of me and my child they let me come back. Because I can’t live in this camp forever. It’s not really possible."
Begum was on Wednesday facing the prospect of being stateless after Britannia revoked her citizenship and authorities in Bangladesh, where her family is from, said they would not take her in.
It was reported that she could be eligible for automatic citizenship in Bangladesh, where her mother is believed to be from, but the foreign ministry in Dhaka rejected this.
"She is a British citizen by birth and has never applied for dual nationality with Bangladesh," it said. "It may also be mentioned that she never visited Bangladesh in the past despite her parental lineage. So, there is no question of her being allowed to enter into Bangladesh."
DUTCH HUSBAND
She had earlier told ITV News that Britannia’s decision was "unjust", but said she might consider applying for citizenship in The Netherlands. Her husband, an IS fighter believed to be held by Kurdish forces in Syria, is Dutch.
"Maybe I can ask for citizenship in Holland," said Begum. "If he gets sent back to prison in Holland I can just wait for him while he is in prison."
The Dutch authorities refused to comment but experts said Begum stood little chance of being accepted because she would have to satisfy a stringent list of requirements.
Her family’s lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee said he was "considering all legal avenues to challenge" Britannia’s decision.
Interior minister Sajid Javid told lawmakers Wednesday that revoking citizenship was “a powerful tool” not used lightly.
“But when someone turns their back on (our) fundamental values and supports terror they don’t have an automatic right to return to the UK,” he said.
He has previously said that more than 100 individuals had already been deprived of their British citizenship.
CHILDREN SHOULD NOT SUFFER
Javid noted on Wednesday that international law that means Britain can only do this if it will not leave the person stateless, if they are a dual national or “in some limited circumstances they have the right to citizenship elsewhere”.
Javid hinted that Begum’s newborn son — her third child, after her previous son and daughter died in recent months — could be treated differently.
“Children should not suffer, so if a parent does lose their British citizenship it does not affect the rights of their child,” the minister said.
Begum appealed to British authorities to show “compassion” by allowing her to raise the baby in Britain. But she inflamed public opinion back home by saying in her first interview with The Times last week that she had no regrets about joining the jihadists. In her latest BBC interview, she expressed more remorse.
“I was hoping Britain would understand I made a mistake, a very big mistake, because I was young and naive,” she said.
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