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Woman Who Ran Away to Join ISIS As Teenager Can Return to U.K. To Fight Citizenship Decision, Court Rules

Shamima Begum, the woman who ran away from her London home as a teenager to join ISIS in 2015, has won the right to return to the U.K. from a refugee camp in Syria. Begum, now 20, will be able to appeal in person against the U.K. government’s 2019 decision to revoke her British citizenship, which has been criticized by human rights groups who said she had been denied the right to a fair trial. Begum was 15 years old when she was radicalized by ISIS recruiters online and flew to Turkey with two school friends, before slipping into Syria where she was married to a militant. After ISIS was forced to give up most of its territory after a series of military defeats by the U.S.-led coalition in Syria, Begum ended up in a refugee camp where she appealed via the British press to be allowed to return home. But the U.K.

 

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