Sandy
02-26-2021, 01:02 PM
Score another for the good guys. Not a whole lot of victories these days, but this is a good precedent.
Britain's highest court on Friday rejected a bid by a woman who was stripped of her UK citizenship for joining the Islamic State group to return to challenge the decision.
Five judges at the Supreme Court gave a unanimous decision in the case of Shamima Begum, whose legal battles have come to be seen as a test of how Britain treat nationals who joined the jihadists.
They found her right to a fair hearing did not override considerations such as public safety, and that the decision to block her return should remain until she can participate "without the safety of the public being compromised".
Now 21, Begum left her home in east London at the age of 15 to travel to Syria with two school friends and married an IS fighter.
Britain's then-interior minister Sajid Javid revoked her citizenship in 2019 on national security grounds amid an outcry led by right-wing newspapers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-supreme-court-rejects-brides-101914548.html
Britain's highest court on Friday rejected a bid by a woman who was stripped of her UK citizenship for joining the Islamic State group to return to challenge the decision.
Five judges at the Supreme Court gave a unanimous decision in the case of Shamima Begum, whose legal battles have come to be seen as a test of how Britain treat nationals who joined the jihadists.
They found her right to a fair hearing did not override considerations such as public safety, and that the decision to block her return should remain until she can participate "without the safety of the public being compromised".
Now 21, Begum left her home in east London at the age of 15 to travel to Syria with two school friends and married an IS fighter.
Britain's then-interior minister Sajid Javid revoked her citizenship in 2019 on national security grounds amid an outcry led by right-wing newspapers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-supreme-court-rejects-brides-101914548.html