Shamima Begum loses bid to challenge removal of citizenship at Supreme Court

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Shamima Begum has lost an initial bid to challenge the removal of her citizenship at the Supreme Court. Ms Begum lost her first appeal against the decision to revoke her citizenship at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC).

Her citizenship had been removed on national security grounds after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp following her travel to the country as a 15-year-old in 2015.

The decision was in court again earlier this year when three judges at the Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed a bid overturn the SIAC decision. READ MORE: Homes you can buy now in Greater Manchester's best places to live Ms Begum had asked the Court of Appeal for the green light to take her case to the Supreme Court, but on Monday that was refused.

She may now ask the Supreme Court directly for permission to have her case heard by the UK's highest court. Dismissing her Court of Appeal challenge in February, the Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, said: "It could be argued the decision in Ms Begum's case was harsh. "It could also be argued that Ms Begum is the author of her own misfortune, but it is not for this court to agree or disagree with either point of view." "The only task of the court was to assess whether the deprivation decision was unlawful." "Since it was not, Ms Begum's appeal is dismissed." Following this decision, Ms Begum's solicitor Daniel Furner said: "I want to say that I'm sorry to Shamima and to her family that after five years of fighting she still hasn't received justice in a British court, and to promise her and promise the Government that we are not going to stop fighting until she does get justice and until she is safely back home." Begum was one of three bright straight-A students from