Abstract citizenship is mainly based on

Digest opened free editor

Rola Khaleda, FT editor, chooses her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.

The book is the counterpart of the Labor Party, the former minister, and a former conservative minister, respectively

It is no secret that two of us differ in many topics. From immigration to the size of the state, our views sit at different ends of the political spectrum.

However, both believe that British citizenship should grant the same inalienable rights to all those who carry it; On those of mixed heritage, those whose predecessors were here before Norman’s invasion and those who have been sworn in today. As an mainly racist, we refuse the argument that British -born with double nationality can be deprived of their British passport while those who do not have a foreign heritage cannot. In other words, we believe that, as soon as the British, and equally, are equal.

Among the basic rights granted by this nationality are equality before the law and the right to trial by the jury, and even the time we are innocent until it is proven guilty. In the words of the Lord Palmeston: “Likewise, a British issue, in any land that may be, feels confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect it from injustice and error.”

This means protecting the rights of British citizens committed to law as well as those accused of heinous acts. It is not possible to give up the defense of our rights simply because it is Politically comfortable. However, unfortunately, this is exactly what the government chose to do in the case of Shima Begum. This weak British citizen, born and raised in the United Kingdom, was prepared at the age of 15 and was smuggled to join ISIS in Syria, where she was married by force and two of her children died. For several years, she was detained in captivity without trial, in the crowded detention facilities that were disgraced with the disease, malnutrition and death, as her third child died. Surrounded by hostility, violence and doubt, it is not free to speak frankly or participate in its case.

Ceratly, Shamima Pegum I made serious mistakes. But it is our responsibility and no one else. In all normal circumstances, a 15 -year -old girl, an extreme in the United Kingdom, will be seen as a barbarian treatment, as a victim, and her actions were judged in a local court. After all, if her actions were a criminal, we must think about the question that Andrew Mitchell, the deputy, asked a few years ago: “How long was a student too much for the British justice system?”

Pegum is not the only detainee generated in the British in the northeastern Syrian prisons that were stripped of her nationality. Revereve, legal NGOs estimate that there are 25 British families currently being held in unlimited and illegal detention there and, according to UK courts, have been subjected to inhuman and polite treatment. None of them was accused of committing a crime. Among them are nearly 10 men, 20 women and 35 children, the majority under the age of 10. Their lives are in danger every day they remain in these prisons.

The Kurdish authorities, who manage the camps repeatedly and repeatedly from the UK, have been returning the British there. Regardless of the constitutional rights of these individuals by virtue of their nationality, there is a pragmatic security argument for their return – those that the United Kingdom ignores alone among its allies. Even President Trump returned the prisoners to American territory, where dozens of local prosecutions were brought against them.

US officials recently stated: “This is a security and humanitarian crisis that is exacerbated day by day. Detention facilities are the main ISIS goals and … the camps are not very safe.” They continued to determine the “only solid solution”: for countries “for rehabilitation, rehabilitation and rehabilitation, and, when necessary, to prosecute their citizens.”

A recent report by a parliamentary group through the party concluded that the refusal of returning the British home, and that the use of citizenship was “the unrelated waiver of our responsibility, and contributes to instability in the region and creates future security risks.” The Joint Human Rights Committee for both rumors and lords This week From “the dangerous lack of transparency and control”, as well as excessive use, from the citizenship of the United Kingdom.

The United Kingdom is truly proud of equality, support for the rule of law and the principles of legal procedures dating back to Magna Carta. However, by giving up these British families in the camps, by stripping them of their nationality and allowing them to detention, we guarantee that there will be no legal process, accountability, or justice.

Avoiding our international responsibilities is mainly not based, which is why we must re -promise other British and British in northeastern Syria, and why we should enter to protect innocent British children and determine the victims of human trafficking, and bring judicial prosecutions when necessary for UK soil and according to UK law.

We have some of the most detailed anti -terrorist laws in the world. Certainly, he is not outside the UK courts to ensure, as our allies did, that justice is in the case of this small number of people, including children, has ended?