Day: February 22, 2023

Shamima Begum remains de facto stateless after losing her most recent appeal over her British citizenship after it was revoked in 2019. It is clear that, had the Home Secretary made inquiries as to the practical effect of depriving the appellant of her citizenship, he would likely have understood that the appellant could be left without the protection of any state, in the dire conditions of the Roj camp, Begum's lawyers argued in November. He would have been aware that the deprivation decision was likely to render the appellant de facto stateless. Begum has been held in the Roj camp for internationally displaced persons in northern Syria since 2019. Her youngest child, Jarrah, was born in the camp and died three weeks later from pneumonia, records show. Arriving at the camp while she...