Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Ep 21: Shamima Begum and The Prevent Duty
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Ep 21: Shamima Begum and The Prevent Duty
Ep 21: Shamima Begum and The Prevent Duty
On February 26 2021, the Supreme Court has ruled that Shamima Begum, who joined the so-called Islamic state as a teenager, cannot return to Britain; it accepted the Government's case that she's a national security risk.
The court said in a unanimous ruling that her rights were not breached when she was refused permission to return.
Ms Begum, 21, wants to come back to challenge the home secretary's decision to remove her British nationality.
She is currently in a camp controlled by armed guards in northern Syria.
Ms Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls left the UK in February 2015 and traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group.
In 2019, the then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped Ms Begum of her citizenship on national security grounds.
When the Bethnal Green schoolgirls disappeared off the streets of east London in early 2015, never showing up at home for dinner and instead boarded a flight to Istanbul, their parents hadn't the slightest inkling.
In this episode, I want to go back to the start and explore the events that led to Shamima Begum, leaving the UK aged 15 to join the so-called Islamic State in Syria.
View all episodes
By Louis Donald - @Ldonald_DSLEp 21: Shamima Begum and The Prevent Duty
On February 26 2021, the Supreme Court has ruled that Shamima Begum, who joined the so-called Islamic state as a teenager, cannot return to Britain; it accepted the Government's case that she's a national security risk.
The court said in a unanimous ruling that her rights were not breached when she was refused permission to return.
Ms Begum, 21, wants to come back to challenge the home secretary's decision to remove her British nationality.
She is currently in a camp controlled by armed guards in northern Syria.
Ms Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls left the UK in February 2015 and traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group.
In 2019, the then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped Ms Begum of her citizenship on national security grounds.
When the Bethnal Green schoolgirls disappeared off the streets of east London in early 2015, never showing up at home for dinner and instead boarded a flight to Istanbul, their parents hadn't the slightest inkling.
In this episode, I want to go back to the start and explore the events that led to Shamima Begum, leaving the UK aged 15 to join the so-called Islamic State in Syria.