London - (AFP) - The British judiciary confirmed on Wednesday the revocation of the citizenship of Shamima Begum, who went to Syria at the age of fifteen in 2015 to join the Islamic State.

London stripped the young woman of her British citizenship in 2019, citing national security, in a case that particularly affected public opinion due to her young age. But Shamima Begum, now 23 and still in Syria, has appealed the decision.

After fleeing the battles, the young woman found herself in a Syrian camp in February 2019.

She was pregnant with a child who died, sparking criticism of the British government.

She expressed her desire to return to the United Kingdom but was stripped of her citizenship by London. Her family objected to this procedure.
At the beginning of 2020, the Special Committee for Immigration Appeals Considered that the decision does not make Shamima stateless because she was born to parents who hold Bangladeshi nationality.

But Dhaka refused to accept her because she had never applied for her nationality.

Defense lawyers for the young woman, Gareth Pearce and Daniel Furner, said that she was a victim of trafficking by the Islamic State to marry a jihadist, explaining, "There is now no protection for a British child who was trafficked outside the United Kingdom, as the Home Secretary invokes national security."

Amnesty International said, "The ability to simply remove a citizen should not exist in the modern world, particularly when it comes to someone who was severely exploited as a child."