Should Shamima Begum be allowed to return to the UK?

[astrologica]

Your thoughts, Peeps?

[upthecreekyetagain]

‘Unfortunately’ that is not the case - she has the right to apply for Bangladeshi nationality and passport but has never applied for one nor had an application accepted by the Bangladeshis.

As such removing her British nationality has made her stateless, contrary to international law and is the basis of the family’s appeal against the decision.

Appears to have been a knee jerk reaction by the British government and could well end up by the courts affirming Begum’s British nationality.

[**bustysinclaire**]

She is out of the news now I wonder how life is treating her now.

[**bustysinclaire**]

Obviously the older the news the more the people don't care. 

[soppysofty]

She left this country on her sisters passport.

Under international law she surrendered her right to any nationality the second she did that.

She has made herself stateless and is now a refugee.

[upthecreekyetagain]

You don’t need a passport under International Law to leave the country you are a citizen of - so how can it possibly be ‘law’ that doing so using someone else’s passport rescinds your right to citizenship?

It is International Law though that a state cannot take an action that makes a person stateless.

[**bustysinclaire**]

Wonder what she is up to?

[right-then-petal]

might be swanning around ebay

[**bustysinclaire**]

[mhbt32again]

No remorse, no regrets expressed - so no return to the UK.

[john.b74]

If they had not off killed her husband ,,She would be still living out there and we wouldnt be talking about her...let her in and many will follow.. Newspapers will pay her airfare.... Good morning Cee-Dee

[cee-dee]

Allo..... John.

She made her bed and on it she must lie.

[upthecreekyetagain]

Simply an observation but if she had been a 15 year old white girl groomed by Asian men for sex rather than a 15 year old Muslim girl groomed for the same reason, (and with far harsher consequences), would we all be so unsympathetic?

It's easy to forget that she was so young when she left the UK - someone of that age doesn't do something like that without having been heavily influenced, (groomed), by adults - they are the ones that should be vilified yet seem to have been given a "pass".  Shamima is still just 20 years of age, a mother of three children all of whom have died.

If you have children then think back to when they were just 15 and how immature they were at that age and easily influenced.  Would you really write them off at 20 on the basis that what happened to them was their own fault?