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Begum tries again

Former ISIS bride says she may have been victim of traffickers

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Joshua Rozenberg
Jan 01, 2026
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The European Court of Human Rights is to consider whether Shamima Begum’s rights were violated by the Conservative government’s decision in 2019 to deprive the so-called ISIS bride of her British citizenship.

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Begum, then aged 15, left Bethnal Green in east London with two school friends in February 2015. She travelled to Syria and, as the co…

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