(Middle East Eye) An immigration court in London will rule this week on whether Shamima Begum, who fled Britain to join the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria aged 15, has won her appeal against the UK government who revoked her British citizenship.
The Special [Immigration] Appeals Court (SIAC) will release its judgement on Wednesday, while Begum continues to languish in a Kurdish-run detention centre in northern Syria.
Begum left her home in Bethnal Green, East London, with two school friends, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana, in 2015.
In 2019, Begum was stripped of her citizenship after she was found in northeastern Syria, held in a camp for the families of suspected IS fighters and people fleeing IS territory as western-backed Kurdish-led forces defeated the militant group.
