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Stripping Shamima Begum of citizenship ‘was unlawful,’ court hears
by Sam Tobin at the High Court

THE decision to strip Shamima Begum of her British citizenship is unlawful, a court heard today.

Ms Begum, 20, left Britain in February 2015 and lived under Isis rule for more than three years.

She was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February this year.

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