Petition · past parliament
Prevent Shamima Begum (IS teen) from returning to the UK permanently.
Rejected
12 signatures
What the petition asks
Shamima Begum has now requested to return to the UK after leaving the UK to travel to Syria to join IS.
Don’t let the fact that she is pregnant draw her sympathy - she is a threat due to her links. The Justice Secretary has said that she cannot be made ‘stateless’. Yes she can and she should.
Don’t let the fact that she is pregnant draw her sympathy - she is a threat due to her links. The Justice Secretary has said that she cannot be made ‘stateless’. Yes she can and she should.
In 2015, at the age of 15, Shamima Begum travelled to Syria and joined IS. She lived willingly under IS and married an IS member. She is now pregnant and requesting to return to the UK. She has publicly stated she doesn’t regret joining IS - she claims she never saw any executions, but did find a beheaded head in a bin and wasn’t ‘fazed’. She is in no way remorseful for leaving the safe UK to join the terrorist organisation. Now she wants back in but poses a serious potential threat to the UK.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 16 Feb 2019 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 19 Feb 2019 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
12
Status
Rejected
Rejected
19 Feb 2019
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.