Shamima Begum will not be allowed to challenge the removal of her British citizenship at the Supreme Court, judges have ruled.
The 24-year-old had hoped to overturn the government’s decision to revoke her citizenship on national security grounds after she travelled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group.
Justices at the the UK’s highest court said Ms Begum could not appeal against an earlier Court of Appeal ruling.
They said the grounds of her case “do not raise an arguable point of law”.
Ms Begum, who left Bethnal Green, east London, with two schoolfriends in 2015, was later found in a Syrian refugee camp.
She married an Islamic State fighter soon after arriving and went on to have three children, none of whom survived.
Ms Begum was stripped of her British citizenship in 2019, leaving her stateless. She remains in a camp controlled by armed guards in northern Syria.
Last year, she lost her appeal against the decision to revoke her citizenship at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC).
She then took her case to the Court of Appeal – where three judges unanimously dismissed her bid to regain British citizenship in February.
Then in March, Ms Begum lost an initial bid to challenge the removal of her citizenship at the Supreme Court.
Her remaining option was to ask the Supreme Court directly for permission to have her case heard.
However, on Wednesday three justices at the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the bid, finding that the grounds on which she had based her appeal “do not raise an arguable point of law”.
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