Bring Me Home: (Pt 5) A legal battle over Shamima Begum's future
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The Times
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🗓️ 27 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard arguments over whether Shamima Begum should be allowed to come back to Britain to fight for her citizenship. It's a legal battle that could have enormous consequences for her future and her family.
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Guests:
Mohammed Akunjee, solicitor for family of Shamima Begum.
Tom Tugendhat, MP for Tonbridge, Edenbridge and Malling; Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Anthony Loyd, Foreign Correspondent, The Times.
Fiona Hamilton, Crime and Security Editor, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used: The Supreme Court.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, where today we're beginning the hearing of the appeal in the case of Beagum and the Secretary of State for the Home Department. |
| 0:21.0 | All this week, we've been exploring the story of Shamima Begum. On Monday |
| 0:26.8 | the Supreme Court began a hearing to decide whether she should be allowed to come |
| 0:31.1 | back to Britain to fight for her citizenship. But what's actually |
| 0:35.6 | happened in court? The appeal by the Secretary of State and cross appeal. |
| 0:43.0 | What were the judgment when it comes mean for Shimima Begum's future and the future of all British |
| 0:49.1 | nationals languishing in detention camps in Syria? |
| 0:52.2 | To deprive her of British national... languishing in detention camps in Syria. You're listening to stories of our times, |
| 0:58.1 | from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm Mann vinerana. |
| 1:01.8 | Today, bring me home, the legal battle over Shimima Bacon's future. So ordinarily we'd like to go to the court. |
| 1:17.0 | Theona Hamilton has been keeping a close eye on the Shimima Begum hearing at the Supreme Court. |
| 1:23.0 | She's the Crime and Security Editor of the Times. |
| 1:26.0 | And of course, physically going to a court makes it a lot easier because you can ask lawyers |
| 1:32.0 | how to spell their names and where the documents they produce have |
| 1:36.1 | come from another relatively important questions of court reporting, but that's not possible |
| 1:40.9 | at the moment at the Supreme Court because of the strict |
| 1:43.7 | lockdown so they extreme the proceedings online. |
| 1:47.4 | Anyone could log in and watch and listen to what was going on for some time. |
| 1:57.0 | What is this particular stage of the case about? So it's quite a lengthy and complicated case that's been going on for some time, |
| 2:02.0 | but the Supreme Court has been asked to settle a fairly narrow legal point, which is whether or not she should |
| 2:08.6 | be allowed back into the UK to fight her appeal against the revoking of her citizenship. |
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