Shamima Begum, who left the UK at 15 to affix the Islamic State terror group, has misplaced an enchantment towards an earlier determination to strip her of her British citizenship. Regardless of Begum’s admission that she voluntarily traveled to the ‘Caliphate,’ her attorneys tried to make the case that she was trafficked.

Begum was stripped of her citizenship in 2019 on grounds of nationwide safety, after she was found in a detention camp in Syria following the defeat of Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS). She had left London 4 years earlier to affix the group, marrying a jihadist shortly after arriving in Syria and having three youngsters, all of whom died.

Begum, now 23, challenged the federal government’s determination at a secret listening to in November, however the Particular Immigration Appeals Fee dominated on Wednesday that it was lawful.

In his ruling, Decide Robert Jay wrote that whereas the nationwide safety risk posed by Begum is debatable, this situation is “for the secretary of state to judge and never for the fee.”

Begum’s authorized workforce argued that then-Dwelling Secretary Sajid Javid failed to think about whether or not {the teenager} had been a sufferer of kid trafficking when she left for Syria in 2015. Jay wrote that whereas “there was a reputable suspicion that Ms Begum had been trafficked to Syria” and sexually exploited, the proof of this was inadequate to trump Javid’s nationwide safety considerations.

Since she was found in Syria, Begum has spoken extensively to the press, turning into some of the widely-known ‘ISIS brides.’ She instructed reporters in 2019 that she didn’t remorse making the journey, and that the sight of severed heads “didn’t faze me in any respect.” In additional interviews she described terror assaults on British soil as “justified,” however insisted that she was able to return to the UK and reside a daily life.

Regardless of dropping her British citizenship, Begum will not be stateless, and is a citizen of Bangladesh by descent. Nonetheless, she has made no makes an attempt to hunt switch to Bangladesh, the place International Minister Abdul Momen warned in 2019 that she would face the demise penalty for terrorism.