"Among four questions posed by judges in Strasbourg to the Home Office, they asked: Did the secretary of state have a positive obligation, by virtue of article 4 of the convention, to consider whether the applicant had been a victim of trafficking and whether any duties or obligations to her flowed from that fact, before deciding to deprive her of her citizenship?"
"The intervention has encouraged Begum's lawyers and fuelled Conservative and Reform accusations of meddling by foreign judges and their calls to leave European human rights treaty. In 2019, the then home secretary, Sajid Javid, revoked her citizenship on grounds of national security, in a decision upheld in the court of appeal last year and backed by the current government. Campaigners and Begum's lawyers argue she was the victim of child trafficking. Begum, now 26, remains stateless in a Syrian refugee camp."
European judges have questioned the UK government over the 2019 decision to remove Shamima Begum's British citizenship. Lawyers in Europe have asked whether Begum's treatment complied with UK responsibilities to victims of trafficking. Begum left London at 15 to live in Islamic State territory, was married to an IS fighter, and had three children who died in infancy. In 2019 the home secretary Sajid Javid revoked her citizenship on national security grounds; that decision was upheld on appeal. Begum, now 26, remains stateless in a Syrian refugee camp and lodged a challenge under Article 4 in December 2024.
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