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Shamima Begum loses citizenship removal appeal bid

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Shamima Begum will not be allowed to challenge the removal of her British citizenship at the Supreme Court, judges have ruled.

The 24-year-old had hoped to overturn the government decision to revoke her citizenship on national security grounds after she travelled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group.

Justices at the the UK’s highest court said Ms Begum could not appeal against an earlier Court of Appeal ruling.

They said the grounds of her case “do not raise an arguable point of law”.

Ms Begum, who left Bethnal Green, east London, with two schoolfriends in 2015, was later found in a Syrian refugee camp.

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