Britain’s Shamima Begum Decision Just Ran Out Of Road
Britain stripped Shamima Begum of citizenship - now Iraq and the US are forcing this back into Britain’s hands, whether ministers like it or not. Right, so the US military has started moving ISIS detainees out of SDF custody in northern Syria and into Iraq, and Iraq is telling European governments to take their nationals back because the arrangement is temporary. That pulls the ground out from under the assumption Britain has been relying on since 2019, the one where you strip Shamima Begum of citizenship, call it settled, and let distance do the work. The camps and prisons in the north were…
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