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UK Supreme Court to hear jihadist bride's citizenship case in November

Published 09/07/2020, 07:39 AM
Updated 09/07/2020, 07:40 AM

LONDON (Reuters) - The UK Supreme Court will hold two days of hearings in November to hear arguments for and against the government's decision to strip UK citizenship from a British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State.

The hearings on the case of Shamima Begum will take place on Nov. 23 and 24, the court said on Monday.

Begum, who was born to Bangladeshi parents, left London in 2015 when she was 15 and travelled to Syria via Turkey with two schoolfriends. In Syria, she married an Islamic State fighter and lived in the capital of the violent jihadist group's self-declared caliphate.

Britain stripped her of her citizenship after she was discovered in 2019 in a detention camp in Syria, where three of her children died.

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