Bangladesh refuses entry to jihadi bride jilted by UK

ATTEMPTS to stop Islamic State bride Shamima Begum from returning to the UK are under threat after Bangladesh refused to give her sanctuary.

It comes as the US also refused entry to a woman born in the US who travelled to Syria four years ago to join IS.

Begum (pictured) was stripped of her British citizenship on the basis that she is automatically entitled to live in Bangladesh because her parents were born there.

But the Bangladeshi Government said she does not hold dual citizenship and there is “no question of her being allowed to enter” the country.

International law forbids nations from making people stateless by revoking their only citizenship.

Lawyers said Begum could use her newborn baby to get back to the UK on human rights grounds because of her responsibilities to the child.

She gave birth in a Syrian refugee camp two days before her citizenship was revoked.

Begum, who fled her home in East London at 15 to join IS in 2015, denied she was Bangladeshi.

She told the BBC: “I wasn’t born in Bangladesh, I’ve never seen Bangladesh and I don’t even speak Bengali properly.

“I have one citizenship … and if you take that away from me, I don’t have anything. This is a life-changing decision.”