Jihadi brides lose their citizenship

TERROR: Two more jihadi brides who are being held with their children in Syrian refugee camps have been stripped of their British citizenship, it has been reported.

The move comes as the row over Islamic State runaway Shamima Begum continued following the death of her three-week-old son.

TWO more jihadi brides being held with their children in Syrian refugee camps have been stripped of their British citizenship, it has been reported.

It comes as the row over Islamic State runaway Shamima Begum continued following the death of her three-week-old son.

According to The Sunday Times, two women, who between them have five boys under the age of eight, had their UK nationality removed after marrying into a terror cell linked to the murder of Western hostages.

The Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases.

A spokesman added: “Any decisions to deprive individuals of their citizenship are based on all available evidence and not taken lightly.”

The paper quoted legal sources, naming the women as Reema Iqbal, 30, and her sister Zara, 28, whose parents are originally from Pakistan.

It reported that the sisters left for Syria in 2013.

Zara was heavily pregnant with her second child when she made the journey and later had a third, the paper said, while Reema has two sons, one of whom was born in Britain.

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt yesterday insisted that officials were working on how to rescue British children born to IS runaways.

Ms Begum, who fled east London to join the cult aged 15, had pleaded to return to Britain with her baby son Jarrah after already losing two children, but Home Secretary Sajid Javid revoked her passport.

He has faced growing criticism over the move after Jarrah died last week, with his Labour counterpart Diane Abbott calling the death a “stain on the conscience of this Government”.

Mr Hunt said the British boy’s death was “an incredibly distressing and sad situation” but that it was too dangerous to dispatch officials to the war zone, adding that they are at a greater risk than the journalists who have interviewed Ms Begum.

“Shamima knew when she made the decision to join Daesh she was going to a country where there’s no embassy, where there’s no consular assistance. And I’m afraid those decisions, awful though it is, they do have consequences,” he told The Andrew Marr Show on BBC1.

Mr Hunt said he was working with International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt on how children could be safely returned.

“We have been looking at how we can get in touch with these children, how we can find a way to get them out. Sadly in this case, as we know, it wasn’t possible,” he added.

Stripping citizenship is only legal if the individual has a second passport, and it was thought that Ms Begum may have a claim in Bangladesh because of her family background, but Bangladeshi officials denied this.

It emerged on Friday that Ms Begum, now 19, had lost her third child.

A medical certificate showed that Jarrah died of pneumonia a day earlier, the BBC reported.

Ms Begum had earlier discussed her fears that she could lose her son, saying: “This is really not a place to raise children, this camp.”

Her family, who vowed to appeal against Mr Javid’s decision, had also written to the Conservative minister, pleading with him to allow a safe passage for the boy to come to the UK.

Those decisions, awful though it is, they do have consequences. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on the death of Shamima Begum’s baby son.