If Shamima Begum, the ISIS Bride, Is No Longer British, What Does Citizenship Mean? newyorker.com/news/letter-fr… via @NewYorker
Begum has never lived in Bangladesh. Last May, the country’s Foreign Minister, Abdul Momen, told the BBC that Begum has “nothing to do” with Bangladesh and would be refused entry. “The British government is responsible for her,” he said. “They’ll have to deal with her.”
A former MI6 official said that Begum’s fate was not being driven by security concerns or logic: “This is a purely political decision,” he said. “Why one would think that Bangladesh had any better capacity to deal with somebody? It doesn’t make any sense.”
In refusing her appeal, the UK's Special Immigration Appeals Commission acknowledges that her current situation exposes her to the risk of torture, & that she “cannot play any meaningful part in her appeal, & that, to that extent, the appeal will not be fair & effective.” 
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