The home secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced plans to revoke the citizenship of the Islamic State recruit Shamima Begum. If the order proves successful, she will join the ranks of around 120 suspected jihadists and criminals since 2016 who have been stripped of their British nationality and banned from returning to the UK.

El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey

El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey, who were raised in Britain, are alleged to have been part of an Isis terror cell, known as “the Beatles”, responsible for the brutal killings of western captives in Syria and Iraq, including the British aid workers Alan Henning and David Haines and the US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. The security minister, Ben Wallace, confirmed both men had been stripped of their citizenship in July 2018.

Sudan-born Elsheikh, a mechanic from White City in London, came to the UK as a child when his family were granted refugee status. He travelled to Syria in 2012 and joined al-Qaida and later a splinter group that became Isis. Kotey, born in London, is half-Ghanaian, half-Greek Cypriot, and grew up in Shepherd’s Bush. Believed to have converted to Islam in his early 20s, he left behind two young children in Britain.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alexanda Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh talk to the Associated Press at a security centre in Kobani, Syria, in 2018. The men said their home country’s revoking of their citizenship denied them fair trial. Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP

Mahdi Hashi

Mahdi Hashi came to the UK from Somalia when he was five with his parents. The family were granted asylum and subsequently became British citizens. He grew up in Camden, north London, and became a care worker after finishing school. He subsequently became involved in the al-Shabaab group.

In 2009, aged 19, Hashi claimed MI5 was trying to blackmail him into becoming an informer. Later that year, he moved to Somalia. He was never charged with any crime in the UK. In 2012, the then home secretary, Theresa May, ordered that he be stripped of British citizenship on the grounds that he was involved in Islamic extremism. Hashi is currently in jail in New York on terror charges.

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Bilal al-Berjawi

Bilal al-Berjawi was born in Lebanon and grew up in St John’s Wood. He was suspected of being involved with al-Qaida militants in Somalia. In 2006, at the age of 22, he attended an al-Qaida training camp in Mogadishu where he learned to use explosives and was thought to be part of an extremist group known as the “London boys”.

He was detained on suspicion of terrorist offences in 2009 with another Briton, Mohammed Sakr, following a trip to Kenya. His British citizenship was revoked in 2010, at which point he and Sakr were thought to hold senior positions in a militant group linked to al-Qaida. A terror suspect, he was subject to strict surveillance from US services and MI5, and at one point was on a US kill list. He died in a drone strike, shortly after his wife in London gave birth to their first son.

Mohamed Sakr

Mohamed Sakr was born and brought up in London. He attended Quintin Kynaston Academy, the same west London school as Mohammed Emwazi, commonly known as Jihadi John. Sakr was deprived of his citizenship in 2009 following a trip to Somalia, while he was still out of the country. He was suspected of being involved with militant group al-Shabaab, although his parents deny this. His was the first known modern instance of a British-born citizen being stripped of their nationality. Sakr was killed in Somalia in 2012 during a US-led drone strike. His Egyptian-born parents have since renounced the dual citizenship of their children, in order to protect them.