Letter from Syria: “We called for urgent help. No one responded”
After more than a decade of devastation inflicted by civil war, Syrians face a new struggle for survival.
ByShamima Begum
Our Shamima Begum obsession
Her story has been told and retold in countless newspaper articles, three podcasts and three documentaries. Why can’t we look…
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Exclusive: Appeals against being stripped of UK citizenship reach record levels
The figures track the rise in people losing British citizenship in the past decade, as the government tries to make…
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Exclusive: British citizenship of six million people could be jeopardised by Home Office plans
Two in five people in England and Wales from an ethnic minority background could become eligible to be deprived of…
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Shamima Begum’s lawyer: “The court ruling shows there are grades of citizenship”
Tasnime Akunjee on the legal quest to allow the schoolgirl who joined Isis to return to the UK.
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How the Shamima Begum case reveals British citizenship is a two-tiered system
The UK government lacks the means to address the cases of British citizens who have joined Islamic State in a secure…
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The Shamima Begum ruling does not mean the UK can disregard British Isis fighters
The government’s attempt to pretend that those who went to join Islamic State are not its problem will end in disaster.
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When jihadis come home: why no one is sure what should happen to Shamima Begum
Begum is just one of hundreds of foreigners from 40 different countries being detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces. No…
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Revoking Shamima Begum’s citizenship shows the British government is weak
By washing its hands of the 19-year-old, the British government is taking the easy option. And helping other nations to do…
By The case of Shamima Begum shows there are no easy choices for the West as Isis collapses
There is a moral case for repatriating minors taken to Syria by their parents or born there to British migrants.
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Shamima Begum’s lawyer: “What Javid has done is morally appalling and flawed legally”
I met Tasnime Akunjee for the first time in autumn last year. I was interested in the case of the…
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