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Bangladesh refuses entry to jihadi bride jilted by UK

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

It comes as the US also re-fused 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She gave birth in a Syrian refugee camp two days before her citizenshi­p was revoked.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.”

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