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Son of suspected Isis fighter wins back Irish passport (LINK ONLY)
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Sweden proposes bill giving citizenship only to migrants who can speak the language (LINK ONLY)
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Rochdale grooming ringleader shops in town where he abused children six years after he was supposed to be deported (LINK ONLY)
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Three secret British jihadi brides: Previously unknown women are found in the same camp as Shamima Begum (LINK ONLY)
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Watchdog steps in over secrecy about UK women in Syria stripped of citizenship (LINK ONLY)
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Three British-Bangladeshis win appeal against removal of citizenship (LINK ONLY)
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Anish Kapoor: Shamima Begum would be treated as a victim if she was white (LINK ONLY)
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Far-right PVV wants to take constitutional rights from Muslims
(NL Times) The main focus of the election program for Geert Wilders’ PVV is still to close mosques and Islamic schools, ban the Koran, and ban Dutch people with dual nationality from voting or acting as a politician in the Netherlands, NU.nl […]
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Shamima Begum: IS bride ‘angry, upset and crying’ after court rules she can’t return to UK Her friends at their camp in northern Syria told Sky News she is refusing to speak to them.
(Sky News) IS bride Shamima Begum is “very angry, upset and crying” after being refused permission to return to the UK to fight a decision to strip her of British citizenship. On Friday, five Supreme Court justices unanimously turned down her request […]
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Shamima Begum cannot return to UK, Supreme Court rules
(BBC) Shamima Begum, who left the UK for Syria to join the Islamic State group as a teenager, will not be allowed to return and fight her citizenship case, the Supreme Court has ruled. The court said in a unanimous ruling that […]
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Blocking Shamima Begum’s return will further terrorist threat against UK, senior Tories warn (LINK ONLY)
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Shamima Begum to find out next week if she can potentially return to the UK (LINK ONLY)
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PM responds to NZ-Aus woman arrested at Syria-Turkey border
(NZ Herald) Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the New Zealand woman identified as an international terrorist by Turkish authorities should have been deported to Australia. The woman, named by ABC as Suhayra Aden, has been known to New Zealand and Australian authorities […]
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Far-right party accepts that migrants can be German citizens
(AP) The far-right Alternative for Germany says it accepts that people can be German citizens “regardless of their ethno-cultural background,” an about-face for a party whose leading figures have in the past questioned whether immigrants from outside Europe can be integrated. A […]
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Missing British teen Nasra Abukar found in camp for Isis brides — with son aged 3 (LINK ONLY)
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Former jihadi transferred to Belgian prison from Turkey
(Brussels Times) Fouad Akrich, a former jihadist fighter in Syria, has been transferred from Turkey to a prison in Belgium, De Morgen newspaper reported on Saturday. The Federal Office of the Public Prosecutor confirmed that Akrich was transferred on Tuesday. Early this […]
Citizenship
Deporting terror cell leader Benbrika ‘won’t make the world safer’
(Age) Law and counter-terrorism experts say cancelling the citizenship of Abdul Nacer Benbrika, the first Australian convicted of leading a terrorist group, won’t make the country any safer and could lead to a constitutional challenge. Benbrika has completed a 15-year jail term […]
Children & Teens
Report condemns UK over British women and children held in Syria (LINK ONLY)
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Crown bomb plotter stripped of citizenship, faces deportation if released from jail
(Age) Convicted terror cell leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika faces deportation from Australia if he is released from prison, after having his citizenship cancelled by the federal government. Benbrika has completed a 15-year jail term over a plot to bomb Melbourne’s Crown casino […]
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Javid advised of ‘hostile public sentiment’ to Shamima Begum, court told (LINK ONLY)
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Shamima Begum: Return to UK ‘a security risk’
(BBC) Allowing runaway Shamima Begum to return to the UK to challenge her loss of British citizenship “would create significant national security risks,” the Supreme Court has been told. Ms Begum, 21, was one of three east London schoolgirls who joined the […]
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Shamima Begum’s ISIS fighter husband tells her to ‘build a future for us’ amid her UK Supreme Court case (LINK ONLY)
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Son of suspected Isis fighter challenges state’s refusal to recognise him as Irish citizen (LINK ONLY)
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Media: ‘Bookseller from Brønshøj’ sentenced to death in Morocco In 2015, Said Mansour became the first person ever to be stripped of his Danish citizenship. Four years later, he was shipped off to Morocco
(Copenhagen Post) Last year, Said Mansour was deported to Morocco after becoming the first person in history to be stripped of a Danish citizenship. Now, according to several Moroccan media outlets, the 60-year-old has been sentenced to death in Morocco for his […]
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Man denied German citizenship for refusing to shake woman’s hand The man aced the German naturalization test, but refused to shake hands with the female official handing over his citizenship. Despite claims he will not shake hands with men either, his citizenship has been rejected.
(Deutsche Welle) A German court ruled on Friday that a Muslim man who refused to shake the hand of a woman should not receive German citizenship. The 40-year-old Lebanese doctor, who came to Germany in 2002, said he refuses to shake women’s […]
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Supreme Court allows convicted terrorist to appeal attempt by government to revoke his Irish citizenship (LINK ONLY)
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Children & Teens
Australia’s first IS bride Zehra Duman and her children have fled to Turkey The Melbourne-born woman — who had her Australian citizenship revoked for joining the terrorist organisation — has left the Al-Hol refugee camp in north-east Syria with her two young children, SBS News can confirm.
(SBS) IS bride Zehra Duman is currently in a Turkish prison and believed to be under investigation by Turkish authorities. Her four-year-old son and one-year-old daughter are being held at a child protection centre in the Turkish border province of Şanlıurfa where they […]
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Shamima Begum: Female Isis members being ‘underestimated’ because of gender stereotypes, UN warns (LINK ONLY)
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Shamima Begum: Bid to return in citizenship fight goes to Supreme Court
(BBC) The case of runaway Shamima Begum, who is fighting to return to the UK from Syria, will go to the Supreme Court. The Court of Appeal decided that the case raised a point of law of public importance that only the […]
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Eight Brussels jihadists given eight days to hold on to their Belgian nationality
(Brussels Times) Eight Islamic State (IS) supporters from Brussels have been stripped of their Belgian nationality, in the latest move by a Belgian court to keep foreign terrorist fighters from returning to the country. The decision to strip the eight fighters of […]
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PM says legal aid rules to be reviewed following Shamima Begum judgment (LINK ONLY)
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Round-the-clock surveillance on Shamima Begum could ‘cost taxpayers £10million’ over her lifetime (LINK ONLY)
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Terror bride Shamima Begum is ‘ticking time bomb,’ warns ISIS victim’s daughter (LINK ONLY)
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Shamima Begum: Leaving Isis Britons in Syrian camps could be more dangerous than allowing them into UK, government warned (LINK ONLY)
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Shamima Begum ruling reignites debate over Britons who joined Isis (LINK ONLY)
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Up to 150 jihadists could attempt to come to UK after Isil bride Shamima Begum’s court victory (LINK ONLY)
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Sajid Javid ‘deeply concerned’ after judges rule Shamima Begum can return to the UK to fight for citizenship (LINK ONLY)
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Shamima Begum can return to UK to fight for citizenship, Court of Appeal rules
(BBC) Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK to fight the decision to remove her British citizenship, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Ms Begum, now 20, was one of three schoolgirls who left London to join the Islamic […]
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Belgium strips Islamic State returnee of Belgian nationality
(Brussels Times) An Antwerp court has stripped an Islamic State supporter of her Belgian nationality and sentenced her to five years in prison. The 32-year-old woman, identified as Rahma B., was also fined €8,000 as part of her conviction for participating in […]
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France did not break the law by stripping terrorists of nationalities, top court rules The five dual nationals had been convicted on terror charges for links to an Al Qaeda affiliate
(National-UAE) France did not break the law when it stripped five dual nationals of their French nationality over their ties to an Al Qaeda-affiliated group linked to attacks that have killed hundreds, a top European court has ruled. The European Court of […]
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Jailed jihadis stripped of citizenship including Shamima Begum could be allowed back (LINK ONLY)
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IS bride Shamima won’t be allowed in Bangladesh, says govt She was never a Bangladeshi citizen, Foreign Ministry reiterates
(Dhaka Tribune) British citizen Shamima Begum, who left the United Kingdom at the age of 15 to join the Islamic State (IS), will not be allowed to enter Bangladesh, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. At the same time, it reiterated that […]
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Case over passport renewal application by Irish-born child resolved (LINK ONLY)
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ISIS bride Shamima Begum’s bid to return to Britain has cost taxpayers over £30,000 (LINK ONLY)
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Shamima Begum’s UK citizenship should be restored, court told (LINK ONLY)
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Woman stripped of Australian citizenship over alleged Isis role launches bid to overturn law (LINK ONLY)
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State expected to oppose case by son of alleged Isis fighter for renewal of Irish passport (LINK ONLY)
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Irish citizen son of alleged Isis fighter in legal action over Irish passport renewal (LINK ONLY)
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‘Muslims were not foreigners’: Why do Portugal’s restitution laws not include everyone? Restitution laws in Portugal offer citizenship only to the descendants of Jews expelled from the country 500 years ago
(National-UAE) Mouraria, a trendy neighbourhood in Lisbon’s city centre, still bears the name of its former inhabitants, the Moors — Muslims who lived in the Iberian Peninsula in modern Spain and Portugal, and once walked its maze of narrow and winding streets […]
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‘Legal loophole’ could let jihadi brides dodge justice, says watchdog (LINK ONLY)
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