ISIS bride Shamima Begum — the British woman who fled to Syria to join the terror group in 2015 and quickly married one of its fighters — can return home to appeal the decision to strip her of citizenship, a court ruled Thursday.
Begum, 20, was 15 when she took off with two other schoolgirls from Bethnal Green Academy in East London to join the terror group.
The UK-born teen married an ISIS fighter two weeks later and lived in Raqqa, the capital of the self-declared caliphate.
Begum turned up last year at a refugee camp in Syria, where three of her children died. She told reporters that she wished to return home.
But former Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped her of her citizenship months later, with its domestic intelligence agency considering her a security threat.
He argued that she was Bangladeshi by descent and could go there instead.
Begum has been challenging that decision since, saying she’s not a citizen of Bangladesh and that Javid’s decision left her stateless.
Three judges from England’s Court of Appeals on Thursday unanimously agreed that she could have a ‘fair and effective appeal’ only if she were allowed to return to Britain.❑
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