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Shamima Begum, the Glossary

Shamima Begum (born 25 August 1999) is a British-born woman who entered Syria to join the ISIS terrorist group at the age of 15 and was consequently stripped of UK citizenship.^[1]

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2015 in the United Kingdom
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English Islamists
English expatriates in Syria
Female Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members
People who lost British citizenship
Refugees in Syria

AK Abdul Momen

Abul Kalam Abdul Momen (born 23 August 1947), known as AK Abdul Momen, is a Bangladeshi economist, diplomat, and politician who served as minister of foreign affairs from January 2019 to January 2024.

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Al-Hawl refugee camp

The al-Hawl refugee camp (also al-Hol refugee camp) is a refugee camp on the southern outskirts of the town of al-Hawl in northern Syria, close to the Syria-Iraq border, which holds individuals displaced from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

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Anthony Loyd

Anthony William Vivian Loyd (born 12 September 1966) is an English journalist and war correspondent, best known for his 1999 book My War Gone By, I Miss It So.

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.

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Bangladeshi nationality law

The nationality law of Bangladesh governs the issues of citizenship and nationality of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Begum v Home Secretary

Begum v Home Secretary UKSC 7 is the short name of three closely connected proceedings considered together in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, R (on the application of Begum) v Special Immigration Appeals Commission; R (on the application of Begum) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; and Begum v Secretary of State for the Home Department, concerning Shamima Begum, a woman born in the United Kingdom who at the age of 15 travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).

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Ben Wallace (politician)

Sir Robert Ben Lobban Wallace (born 15 May 1970) is a British politician and former British Army Officer who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 2019 to 2023.

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Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Bethnal Green trio

The Bethnal Green trio are Amira Abase, Shamima Begum, and Kadiza Sultana, three British girls who attended the Bethnal Green Academy in London before leaving home in February 2015 to join the Islamic State. Shamima Begum and Bethnal Green trio are 2015 in the United Kingdom, English Islamists, Female Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members, people from Bethnal Green and people of the Syrian civil war.

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Brides of the Islamic State

Beginning in 2012, dozens of girls and women traveled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State (IS), becoming brides of Islamic State fighters. Shamima Begum and brides of the Islamic State are Female Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members.

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British Nationality Act 1981

The British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning British nationality since 1 January 1983.

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Capital punishment in Bangladesh

Capital punishment in Bangladesh is a legal form of punishment for anyone who is over 16, however in practice it would not apply to people under 18.

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Clive Stafford Smith

Clive Adrian Stafford Smith (born 9 July 1959) is a British attorney who specialises in the areas of civil rights and working against the death penalty in the United States of America.

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Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness

The Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness is a 1961 United Nations multilateral treaty whereby sovereign states agree to reduce the incidence of statelessness.

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Court of Appeal (England and Wales)

The Court of Appeal (formally "His Majesty's Court of Appeal in England", commonly cited as "CA", "EWCA" or "CoA") is the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and second in the legal system of England and Wales only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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Dhaka Tribune

The Dhaka Tribune is a major Bangladeshi English-language daily newspaper based in Dhaka, the country's capital and largest city.

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Diane Abbott

Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a British politician and a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since first being elected in 1987.

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East London

East London is the northeastern part of London, England, east of the ancient City of London and north of the River Thames as it begins to widen.

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Evening Standard

The Evening Standard, formerly The Standard (1827–1904), is a long-established newspaper, since 2009 a local free newspaper in tabloid format, with a website on the Internet, published in London, England.

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Government of Bangladesh

The Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ সরকার —) is the central executive government of Bangladesh.

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Hoda Muthana

Hoda Muthana (born October 28, 1994) is a U.S.-born Yemeni woman who emigrated from the United States to Syria to join ISIS in November 2014. Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana are Female Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members and stateless people.

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Human trafficking

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation.

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Indefinite leave to remain

Indefinite leave to remain (ILR) is an immigration status granted to a person who does not hold the right of abode in the United Kingdom (UK), but who has been admitted to the UK without any time limit on their stay and who is free to take up employment, engage in business, self-employment, or study.

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Islamic State

The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.

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Jack Letts

Jack Abraham Letts (born 1995) is a Canadian Muslim convert, formerly of dual British-Canadian nationality, who has been accused of being a member of the Islamic State (IS).

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Jeremy Hunt

Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt (born 1 November 1966) is a British politician who is the current Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2024.

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Justin Trudeau

Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who has been serving as the 23rd prime minister of Canada since 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since 2013.

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Kalashnikov rifle

Kalashnikov rifles (Автоматы Калашникова), also known as the AK platform, AK rifles or simply the AK, are a family of assault rifles based on Mikhail Kalashnikov's original design.

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Legal aid

Legal aid is the provision of assistance to people who are unable to afford legal representation and access to the court system.

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Legal Aid Agency

The Legal Aid Agency is an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in the United Kingdom.

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London Borough of Tower Hamlets

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a borough of London, England.

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Manchester Arena bombing

The Manchester Arena bombing, or Manchester Arena attack, was an Islamic terrorist suicide bombing of the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, on 22 May 2017, following a concert by American pop singer Ariana Grande.

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Metropolitan Police

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly known as the Metropolitan Police, which is still its common name, serves as the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within Greater London.

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Modern immigration to the United Kingdom

Since 1945, immigration to the United Kingdom, controlled by British immigration law and to an extent by British nationality law, has been significant, in particular from the Republic of Ireland and from the former British Empire, especially India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Caribbean, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Hong Kong.

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Mulberry Academy Shoreditch

Mulberry Academy Shoreditch is a comprehensive co-educational academy for students aged between 11–18 in the Bethnal Green neighbourhood of the Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London.

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Multiple citizenship

Multiple citizenship (or multiple nationality) is a person's legal status in which a person is at the same time recognized by more than one country under its nationality and citizenship law as a national or citizen of that country.

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Nicky Morgan

Nicola Ann Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Cotes, (born 10 October 1972) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities from 2014 to 2016 and Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 2019 to 2020.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Richard Kerbaj

Richard Kerbaj is a BAFTA-winning, twice Emmy-nominated filmmaker, writer and multi-award winning print journalist.

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Sajid Javid

Sir Sajid Javid (born 5 December 1969) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from June 2021 to July 2022, having previously served as Home Secretary from 2018 to 2019 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2019 to 2020.

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Samantha Lewthwaite

Samantha Louise Lewthwaite (born 5 December 1983), also known as Sherafiyah Lewthwaite or the White Widow, is a British terrorist who is one of the Western world's most wanted terrorism suspects. Shamima Begum and Samantha Lewthwaite are 21st-century British women.

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Sharmeena Begum

Sharmeena Begum (born 1999) is a jihadi bride who left the United Kingdom to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in December 2014. Shamima Begum and Sharmeena Begum are English Islamists, English people of Bangladeshi descent, Female Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members, people from Bethnal Green and people of the Syrian civil war.

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Special Immigration Appeals Commission

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (also known by the acronym SIAC) is a superior court of record in the United Kingdom established by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission Act 1997 that deals with appeals from persons deported by the Home Secretary under various statutory powers, and usually related to matters of national security.

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Statelessness

In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law".

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Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (initialism: UKSC) is the final court of appeal in the United Kingdom for all civil cases, and for criminal cases originating in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.

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Syrian Democratic Forces

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is a Kurdish-led coalition formed by ethnic militias and rebel groups, and serves as the official military wing of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).

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Tareena Shakil

Tareena Shakil (born 1989) is a British terrorist who is notable for being the first, and only, British woman convicted of having travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State. Shamima Begum and Tareena Shakil are 2021 in the United Kingdom, English Islamists and Female Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members.

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Tasnime Akunjee

Mohammed Tasnime Akunjee (born December 1977) is a British Bangladeshi criminal law and human rights lawyer, and a political commentator.

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Terrorism Act 2000

The Terrorism Act 2000 (c. 11) is the first of a number of general Terrorism Acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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United Kingdom and the Islamic State

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the United Kingdom.

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Yaser Esam Hamdi

Yaser Esam Hamdi (born September 26, 1980) is a former American citizen who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001.

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Yazidis

Yazidis, also spelled Yezidis (translit), are a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran.

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2016–17 all-female UK terror plot

Between 2016 and 2017, UK Counter Terrorism Policing discovered and monitored an ISIS-inspired plot by four women, three of whom were family members, to carry out terrorist attacks in London, in what was described as Britain's first all-female terrorist plot. Shamima Begum and 2016–17 all-female UK terror plot are English Islamists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamima_Begum

Also known as Jarrah Begum, Jerrah Begum, Shameena Begum (Shamina Begum), Yago Riedijk.

, Tasnime Akunjee, Terrorism Act 2000, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Turkey, United Kingdom and the Islamic State, Yaser Esam Hamdi, Yazidis, 2016–17 all-female UK terror plot.

Shamima Begum, the Glossary

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See also

2015 in the United Kingdom

2019 in the United Kingdom

2020 in the United Kingdom

2021 in the United Kingdom

English Islamists

English expatriates in Syria

Female Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members

People who lost British citizenship

Refugees in Syria

References