The family of Shamima Begum, the teenager who fled London to join ISIS in Syria, say they want to appeal the UK’s decision to strip her of citizenship, which could result in Britain being forced to accept her back.
Begum, now 19, fled her home in east London for Syria to marry an ISIS fighter alongside two school friends in 2015.
She escaped Baghouz, the village considered the last bastion of ISIS’s waning caliphate, while nine months pregnant about three weeks ago in order to save her then-unborn child.
She is now trying to return home with her newborn son, Jerah, to whom she gave birth in a Syrian refugee camp last weekend.
But her fight to return home is not easy. The UK considers her a national security threat and have worked to prevent her return.