UK appeals court says woman in Syria unlawfully stripped of citizenship
The woman, who is living in the Al-Roj camp in northeast Syria, had sought repatriation to the United Kingdom.
The United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal said Wednesday that it was unlawful for the British government to revoke the citizenship of a woman held in northeast Syria without informing her first.
The woman, identified by the court only as D4, has been living with other Islamic State-linked women and children in the Kurdish-run Al-Roj camp since 2019.
D4, who also has Pakistani nationality, requested she be repatriated to the United Kingdom. But her lawyers were informed in September 2020 that UK authorities had stripped D4 of her citizenship 10 months prior.
The UK’s High Court had previously ruled that the stripping D4’s citizenship was “void and of no effect” because the Home Office had failed to give her proper notice. The Court of Appeals upheld that judgment by a a two to one majority on Wednesday.
