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    Shamima Begum, who left Britain as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State, has lost an appeal against the decision to remove her British citizenship.

    Begum’s lawyers brought a bid to overturn this decision at the court of appeal, with the Home Office opposing the challenge.

    But the judges ruled against her in each case, including concluding that a public sector equality duty did not apply in the event of national security.

    The judges also concluded that Javid had considered whether Begum was a victim of child trafficking, as her legal team had argued, and that the question of whether she posed a danger to UK national security was a judgment he was entitled to make.

    Nor, the judges held, was the then minister required to consider whether she would be effectively rendered stateless because there was no possibility of her returning to Bangladesh from where her parents originate.

    Maya Foa, the director of Repreive, an NGO that represents British women detained in northeast Syria said: “This whole episode shames ministers who would rather bully a child victim of trafficking than acknowledge the UK’s responsibilities” and argued that the policy of depriving citizenship is “a terrible, unsustainable policy designed to score cheap political points”.


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