The real scandal of the Shamima Begum citizenship case
Letters: Former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption on last week’s ruling on the home secretary’s decision to deprive Begum of her citizenship. Plus letters from Ilina Todorovska, Owen Stewart, Andrew Snowdon and Carmel Bedford
Shamima Begum has shown up courts’ deference to this government. It’s a worrying new era
Conor Gearty
Issues related to national security have always been hard to crack, but judges are unwilling to consider human rights, says barrister Conor Gearty
The Guardian view on Shamima Begum: stateless and detained in Syria
Editorial: Without being able to consider lived experience, the court came to the only judgment it could
July 2020
Shamima Begum: Home Office to fight court rule letting Isis recruit return to UK
Judges face challenge over ‘access to fair trial’ for 20-year-old after Javid decision to revoke her British citizenship
June 2020
Shamima Begum's UK citizenship should be restored, court told
Woman who fled as schoolgirl to join Isis cannot fight fair appeal from Syria, lawyers say
March 2019
Shamima Begum family challenge Javid's citizenship decision
Relatives say it was unfair to remove UK citizenship when others who went to Isis territory were allowed back
July 2015
Walk down the wrong street and you're back in prison: the Kafkaesque life of a terror suspect in Britain
Since Algerian asylum seeker Y was arrested in 2003, he has spent years behind bars or unable to move more than a few miles, yet he has never been convicted of a crime. What is it like to exist under such extraordinary restrictions?
April 2015
Court secrecy goes beyond the Incedal case – it affects immigration appeals too
Letters: Hearings at which the defendant is not allowed to know who has accused him, or of what, are now part of the normal process of the Special Immigrations Appeals Commission
November 2013
Terror suspect loses British citizenship appeal
Special Immigration Appeals Commission backs Theresa May's decision to deprive Afghan national of British citizenship
