citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish

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This is not a secret that we do not agree on a lot of things. From immigration to state size, our views sit in different parts of the political spectrum.

Nevertheless, we both believe that British citizenship should all those who hold it should be given the same unforgettable rights; Regarding the mixed heritage, the ancestors whose ancestors were here before the Norman victory and those who took the oath of citizenship today. We fundamentally reject as racist, that the argument that the British born with dual citizenship can be deprived of their British passport when no foreign heritage is worth it. In other words, we believe that once British, always and equal to British.

The fundamental rights that this citizenship gives to is the right to justice before the law and the right to judge by jury, unless we are guilty until we are all innocent. In the words of Lord Pamrston: “So a British thing, no matter what he lives in any country, he will feel confident that England’s surveillance eyes and sight streng ৰ arm will protect him from wrong and wrong”.

This means protecting the rights of the accused for British citizens and the heinous acts to obey the law. The defense of our rights cannot just be abandoned because it is Politically Convenient. Sadly, however, the government has chosen it in the case of Shamima Begum. This weak British citizen, born in the UK, was built at the age of six and was smuggled to ISIS in Syria, where he was forcibly married and his two children died. For many years, he has been imprisoned without justice, in the benefits of detention that spread to death, malnutrition and death, where his third child died as a result. Surrounded by hostility, violence and doubt, he is not independent to speak publicly or appeal to his case.

Shamima, Shamima Beggar Made serious mistakes. But he is our responsibility and no one else. In all ordinary situations, a 15 -year -old teenager, in the UK, is subject to extremist and barbaric treatment, will be seen as victims and will be judged about his action in a domestic court. First of all, if his steps are guilty, we must consider this question, Andrew Mitchell MP asked a few years ago: “Since any school student was too much for the British judicial system?”

Not the only British prisoners of the northeastern Syrian prison, they took away their citizenship. Restore, legal NGOs assume that there are currently 20 British families that are unspecified, illegal detainees and according to the UK court, under inhuman and abusive treatment. No one was charged with crime. About 10 men, 20 females and 35 children, the majority under 10 years of age. Their lives are in this prison every day.

The Kurdish authorities, which are running the camps, have repeatedly asked the UK to repatriate the British there. And regardless of the constitutional rights that these people have because of their citizenship, there is a practical protection argument for repatriation – it is a UK alone ignoring its allies. Even President Trump has returned prisoners to the United States, where dozens of domestic cases have been brought against them.

US officials recently said: “This is a protection and a humanitarian crisis that is getting worse in the day. Detained facilities are the main target of ISIS and … camps are extremely unsafe”. They went to detect “the only sustainable solution”: for countries “repatriation, rehabilitation, re -conversion and where appropriate, judging their citizens”.

In a recent report by a cross-party parliamentary group, it was concluded that the British refusing and using citizenship was to “an irresponsible abuse of our responsibility, contribute to instability in the region and create future security risks”. Human Rights of both Commons and Lords Warning this week In addition to the “transparency and severe lack of supervision”, additional use of the additional use of citizenship through the UK.

The UK is appropriately equality, supports the laws of law, and proud of the principles of the proper process of returning to the Magna cart. Nevertheless, we guarantee that these British families leave the camps, take away their citizenship and allow them to arrest them, that there will be no legal process, no accountability and justice.

Avoid our international responsibilities is also fundamentally uninterrupted, which is why we need to repatriate Begum and other British in northeastern Syria, why we must protect innocent British children and identify human trafficking victims and suit the UK soil where UK laws should be filed.

We have some anti -terrorism status in the world. Our allies have done justice for these small people, including children, not outside the UK court?