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originally posted by: ScepticScot
She met the UK criteria for being a citizen and had a UK passport.
originally posted by: paraphi
originally posted by: ScepticScot
She met the UK criteria for being a citizen and had a UK passport.
To be fair, she also meets the criteria to be a Bangladeshi citizen. Besides, she used her sisters passport, so whether she actually had a British passport is moot. Her lawyers need to press Bangladesh to sort her Bangladeshi citizenship, so she can go to a country more akin to her values. She's already said she does not agree with all British values.
originally posted by: Flavian
However, Bangladesh and Holland have denied her right to citizenship (which she doesn't have with them, that was simply grapsing at straws). And it is illegal under international law to leave a person stateless. So it looks increasingly likely that the Home Secretary will have to back down on his stance.
originally posted by: paraphi
originally posted by: Flavian
However, Bangladesh and Holland have denied her right to citizenship (which she doesn't have with them, that was simply grapsing at straws). And it is illegal under international law to leave a person stateless. So it looks increasingly likely that the Home Secretary will have to back down on his stance.
Well, I posted some of the legal elements in an earlier post, which I shamelessly link to www.abovetopsecret.com...
The position of the UK Government is that she's not being left stateless because under Bangladeshi law she is automatically a citizen on account of her mother's origin. The fact that Bangladesh has said they don't want her is besides the point, because under their law she's a Bangladeshi citizen.
It's almost certain her lawyers will appeal the decision, and then I guess we will wait to see what happens. I am all for legal process, so no objection that she's going to use a legal system she would doubtlessly like to replace with something else, having had all the judges beheaded and women raped and sent into slavery.
In the Caliphate she went to join she would have had no rights and there would have been recognisable law. It's a odd world for sure, eh?
originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: paraphi
Apparently Bangladesh has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to terrorists....the Dutch have said the same.
But it seems we don't.....quite bizarre really.
originally posted by: sapien82
a reply to: ScepticScot
I'd like her to see her day in court , so we can send a message to anyone who has similar ideas, UK citizen sure, run away to support an enemy of the state then face trial for an act of sedition , treason , conspiracy with a known enemy of the people.
Then lock her up for life!
make a crown court case out of it and enshrine it into UK law
but then others would only say that its paving the way for any government to cry foul of your ideology, and that your 2 week trip to Ibiza in the summer was a recruitment camp for (insert abbreviated flavour of the month terror group here)
you are now radicalised and will face a trial by your peers for sedition, treason and conspiracy with a known terror group upon your return to the UK.
Im sceptic of this because it could pave the way for more government control , I mean you already get locked up for criticising the tory party with an A4 piece of paper saying "# off tory #s" in your living room window
then what does joining a rebel group who actively fights against the UK armed forces inter ?