UK IS bride can return to fight citizenship: Report

London: Shamima Begum, a British resident who ran away in 2015 to become an Islamic State (IS) jihadi bride, has won a legal battle to be allowed to return home to fight the government’s decision to remove her UK citizenship, a media report said on Thursday.
In its ruling, the Court of Appeal said she had been denied a fair hearing because she could not make her case from the camp, the BBC reported.
The judgement means the government must now find a way to allow the 20-year-old to appear in court in London despite repeatedly saying it would not assist removing her from Syria.
Responding to the development, Daniel Furner, Begum’s solicitor, said: “She has never had a fair opportunity to give her side of the story. She is not afraid of facing British justice, she welcomes it.
“But the stripping of her citizenship without a chance to clear her name is not justice, it is the opposite.” Begum had argued that the government’s decision to revoke her citizenship was unlawful because it left her stateless.