This is such a concerning president, hopefully the ECHR overturns this. The government shouldn’t have the power to make you stateless.
The UK government’s position was always that it wasn’t making her stateless as she is entitled to Bangladeshi citizenship through her parents. So from their point of view they weren’t making her stateless.
Funnily enough the Bangladeshi government at the time turned around and said, fuck that she’s British, she’s never even been here!.
The UK government were never looking for powers to make people stateless. Although on a technicality they were quite happy to make someone not British. There’s a subtle difference, I hope you can see.
Anyway, that was the previous Tory government so it will be interesting to see what Labour’s position is on this. The new Labour Home Secretary could simply override the previous decision and allow her back in.
It’s fine for Brits to go and join an army that is committing war crimes in Gaza but a brown skinned non-combatant loses her citizenship for the crime of going to Syria and marrying an ISIS militant.
The double standards are obvious.
While I think it’s ridiculous to strip her of citizenship - she’s our problem, we should be dealing with her, and we’re also making her stateless - it’s pretty obvious that the law will treat you differently if you join an organisation that is at war with the government vs one that isn’t. Even when both organisations act heinously.
Thanks for posting this. I was trying to work out how to word it. You did a way better job then I would have.
Is this the only case of revoked citizenship for an IS fighter in Europe/the western world? Are there any others?
