{"id":789493,"date":"2022-09-06T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/sep\/06\/our-shameful-betrayal-of-shamima-begum"},"modified":"2022-09-06T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T16:12:06","slug":"our-shameful-betrayal-of-shamima-begum-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/06\/our-shameful-betrayal-of-shamima-begum-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Our shameful betrayal of Shamima Begum | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has wholly failed in its duty towards her, say <strong>Flora Mackechnie <\/strong>and<strong> Nicola Bailey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It should never have come to alleged espionage for us to notice that what happened to the Bethnal Green trio has been covered up from the very beginning (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/sep\/02\/shamima-begum-trafficking-spy-home-office-citizenship\" title=\"\">Shamima Begum\u2019s is a story of trafficking, betrayal and now, it seems, a state cover-up, 2 September<\/a>). I have been confounded by the equanimity that met the government\u2019s decision to revoke Shamima Begum\u2019s citizenship and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/feb\/26\/shamima-begum-cannot-return-to-uk-to-fight-for-citizenship-court-rules\" title=\"\">supreme court\u2019s bizarre ruling<\/a>, which accepted that she had limited access to a fair trial while not seeing fit to allow her return to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Begum is the legal responsibility of the UK, and the rejection of this duty encapsulates the political abuse of the law and the unfathomable public acceptance of this. The irony of human rights is that they are popular on a superficial level, but where they are truly required, they are contentious and contradicted. If we make exceptions to rights for those who need them most, we simply do not have any rights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/sep\/06\/our-shameful-betrayal-of-shamima-begum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has wholly failed in its duty towards her, say Flora Mackechnie and Nicola BaileyIt should never have come to alleged espionage for us to notice that what happened to the Bethnal Green trio has been covered up from the very beginning &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,2816,4483,6,9368,14,9163,1314,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789588,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789493\/revisions\/789588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}