Begum is currently being held in a detention camp in north-eastern Syria.
Announcing the tribunal’s decision, Judge Robert Jay said there was a “credible suspicion” that Begum had been taken to Syria for the purposes of “sexual exploitation”, but that the suspicion was insufficient for her appeal to succeed.
Begum’s case has been the subject of a heated debate in the UK in recent years, with some saying she renounced her right to citizenship by traveling to join the militants and others arguing that she should not be left stateless .
Jay also said that British government officials “see this as a black-and-white issue”, saying in his written judgment that the evidence of the government’s witnesses to the tribunal “betrayed an all-or-nothing approach”. Gave”.
He said the tribunal was concerned by the “apparent underestimation of the importance of radicalization and grooming” by the security services.
Jay said, “History, and sadly the present, is littered with examples of dictatorships trying to manipulate their subject populations through propaganda and the like.” “It is normal that they succeed.”
