Hyderabad, Jan. 2 -- United Kingdom (UK) Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has vowed to defend the decision to strip the citizenship of a woman who fled to Syria to join the Islamic State.

The decision comes after thehe European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) asked the Home Office whether ministers considered Begum was a victim of trafficking. According to a report by the British Broadcast Corporation.

"The home secretary will robustly defend the decision to revoke Shamima Begum's citizenship, which has been tested and upheld time and again in our domestic courts," an official was quoted as saying by the BBC.

In 2025, the Strasbourg court posed questions to the UK government on whether it broke anti-trafficking obligations when it stripped ...