JUST IN: Shamima Begum, the Bethnal Green school girl who ran off to join Islamic State, has lost the first stage of her appeal against having her British citizenship stripped.
The Special Immigration Appeals Commission, which hears national security cases, said that the 20-year-old could be stripped of her nationality because she had not been left stateless. SIAC said she could turn instead to Bangladesh for citizenship.
The commission also ruled that the former Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, had not exposed Ms BeguM, 20, to human rights abuses by leaving her in a refugee camp in northern Syria.
The case will now move on to consider whether the government had legitimate national security grounds to bar her from coming back to the UK – although Ms Begun’s legal team may seek to appeal the outcome of this preliminary ruling.
So in summary: Ms Begum has lost the preliminary legal argument that the UK had left her stateless (can't do that under international law). But whatever the outcome of an appeal on that, SIAC hasn't yet looked at the secret assessment about why she poses such a risk to the nation
