Charity Reprieve criticises government’s ‘abdication of responsibility’ over Shamima Begum

Britain risks creating “a new Guantánamo” in Syria by leaving Shamima Begum and others like her stranded in Syrian detention camps after the supreme court rejected her appeal against a decision to revoke her UK citizenship.

A key figure who has been involved with her case said the judgment left the 21-year-old in a legal limbo, unable to return to the UK or mount an effective challenge to the deprivation decision remotely.

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