Denying Shamima Begum of Citizenship ‘A Form of Capital Punishment,’ Parliament Told

Senior Labour peer Lord Griffiths tells minister it is 'inhumane' for the British government to leave the jihadi bride in Syria

Shamima Begum being interviewed by Sky News in northern Syria on Feb. 17, 2019. Reuters

Depriving a former jihadi bride of her British citizenship is a form of capital punishment that has left her “the breathing dead,” a senior Labour peer has told Parliament.

Tackling the Home Office minister on the situation faced by Shamima Begum—who was stripped of her British identity by the UK government in 2019—Lord Griffiths said leaving the 23-year-old in Syria was “inhumane.”