‘I am not a threat to British public’ says aid worker stripped of UK citizenship

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‘I am not a threat to British public’ says aid worker stripped of UK citizenship
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Tauqir Sharif says the decision to target him goes against the ‘British values of equality and empathy for others’ that he was taught at school.

to ‘help end the suffering of the Syrian people’ and has called the government’s decision to strip him of his citizenship ‘hypocritical’.

Mr Sharif says the decision to target him goes against the ‘British values of equality and empathy for others’ that he was taught at school.removed his British citizenship, saying it had seen secret intelligence and believed he had links to a group aligned with al-Qaeda.He is appealing against the decision and had until recently been granted anonymity by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, which he has decided to waive in order to tell his story.

He says that since going to Syria he went to help rebuild the infrastructure that had been ‘dismantled’ and helped ‘build schools, housing projects, and tents in refugee camps’.He added: ‘I’ve been very open about what I’ve been doing since coming here, posting publicly, my profile is already out there’.

He claims that ISIS tried to blackmail him at one point ‘demanding $50,000’ and they even ‘tried to kill him’.He said the decision to strip him of his citizenship had ‘impacted both upon himself and his family’ but he was not ‘begging to come back’.

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