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Shamima Begum, one of three east London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria to join so-called Islamic State, should be allowed to return to the UK to challenge the removal of her British citizenship, senior judges have ruled.
The 20-year-old left the UK in February 2015 and lived under IS rule for more than three years before she was found, nine months pregnant, in a refugee camp in February last year.
The then home secretary Sajid Javid revoked her British citizenship on national security grounds later that month.
© PA Shamima Begum leaving the UK with Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase in 2015
© Other Shamima Begum told Sky News last year that she was just a ‘housewife’
In an interview with Sky News she claimed she was “just a housewife” during her four years in IS’ self-declared caliphate, where she married a young Dutch fighter called Yago Riedijk three weeks after arriving.