{"id":10742,"date":"2021-02-26T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/us\/2021\/03\/03\/u-k-supreme-court-rules-woman-who-joined-islamic-state-as-teen-cannot-return-to-britain\/"},"modified":"2021-03-03T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T13:57:16","slug":"u-k-supreme-court-rules-woman-who-joined-islamic-state-as-teen-cannot-return-to-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/us\/2021\/02\/26\/u-k-supreme-court-rules-woman-who-joined-islamic-state-as-teen-cannot-return-to-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Supreme Court rules woman who joined Islamic State as teen cannot return to Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shamima Begum, a British woman who left the country as a teenager in 2015 to join the Islamic State, will not be allowed to return to the United Kingdom to fight a legal case about the revocation of citizenship, the country\u2019s top court ruled Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full story in the Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/02\/26\/shemima-begum-supreme-court-uk-syria-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. <br><br>Other coverage of the ruling featuring Reprieve included Reuters, BBC News, the Guardian, Al-Jazeera, the Independent and i News, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamima Begum, a British woman who left the country as a teenager in 2015 to join the Islamic State, will not be allowed to return to the United Kingdom to fight a legal case about the revocation of citizenship, the country\u2019s top court ruled Friday. 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