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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.
Britain law

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. 

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