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by Hoopoe » February 28, 2019, 7:29 am
Seem's the home secretary is about to do a U TURN
Home Secretary admits it may be difficult to strip Isis bride Shamima Begum of UK citizenship
Yahoo News UK Andy Wells,Yahoo News UK 9 hours ago
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Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped Isis bride Shamima Begum of UK citizenship last week but he has now indicated that it may be prove difficult to enforce.
Speaking at the home affairs committee, Mr Javid admitted that the power can not be used if it leaves an individual stateless.
While not commenting specifically on Begum’s case, Mr Javid said: “If an individual only has one citizenship, then generally the power cannot be used because by definition if you took away their British citizenship they would be stateless.
Shamima Begum was stripped of UK citizenship last week (BBC)
“I certainly haven’t done that and I am not aware that one of my predecessors has done that in a case where they know an individual only has one citizenship, as that would be breaking international law as we understand it.”
It had been thought that Begum, who travelled to Syria from London to join Isis when she was 15, travelled to the UK on a Bangladeshi passport when she was a toddler, meaning she would not be made stateless.
However, Bangladesh officials have denied she has citizenship there and Begum remains in a refugee camp with her newborn baby.