The return of ISIS supporter Shamima Begum to the UK to fight the withdrawal of her British passport has been delayed after the government won the right to appeal at the country’s highest court.
Ms Begum, 20, was stripped of her citizenship after she travelled in February 2015 with two other schoolgirls from London to join ISIS fighters in Syria.
Judge Eleanor King said the Supreme Court should consider a case that raised "points of law of general public importance" after the government argued her return would expose Britons to a greater risk from terrorism.
Earlier this month, three Court of Appeal judges – including Ms King – had ruled that fairness and justice outweighed any national security concerns over Ms Begum’s return.
Ms Begum, whose citizenship was revoked in 2019 on the grounds of national security, is stranded in a Syrian refugee camp.
She married a Dutch member of the terror group, with whom she had three children. The one-year-old girl, three-month-old boy and newborn all died.
The removal of Ms Begum’s citizenship has provoked a heated debate. Her lawyers have argued that the decision was unlawful, made her stateless and exposed her to the risk of death or inhuman and degrading treatment.
Ms Begum is British born but of Bangladeshi heritage. The Bangladesh foreign minister has said that he would not consider granting her citizenship.
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"They see their tomorrows slipping out of their reach. And though it seems to them that everything outside this reality is heaven, yet they do not want to go to that heaven. They stay, because they are afflicted with hope." - Mahmoud Darwish, to attendees of the Palestine Festival of Literature, 2008
His life in brief: Born in a village near Galilee, he lived in exile for most of his life and started writing poetry after high school. He was arrested several times by Israel for what were deemed to be inciteful poems. Most of his work focused on the love and yearning for his homeland, and he was regarded the Palestinian poet of resistance. Over the course of his life, he published more than 30 poetry collections and books of prose, with his work translated into more than 20 languages. Many of his poems were set to music by Arab composers, most significantly Marcel Khalife. Darwish died on August 9, 2008 after undergoing heart surgery in the United States. He was later buried in Ramallah where a shrine was erected in his honour.
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