This Week in the Middle East

Shamima Begum et al

February 07, 2020 William Season 11 Episode 18
This Week in the Middle East
Shamima Begum et al
Show Notes

Shamima Begum has lost the first stage of her appeal against the removal of her citizenship. The judge decided she was not "stateless". According to information we have received, Shamima returned to the UK in secret on Christmas Eve and is being kept in an undisclosed location. According to the world at large, Shamima remains in Camp Roj, a refugee camp in the Hasakeh region of northern Syria along with hundreds of other ISIS brides and their children. Regardless of the truth of the foregoing, what would you do with her and with the many others in her situation? Make them stateless? Is the removal of citizenship an honourable solution to this troubling issue? Surely not?

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Reflections and observations from William Morris, Secretary General of the Next Century Foundation