Begum’s lawyers argue she was child trafficking victim when she travelled to live under IS in Syria in 2015
The European court of human rights has questioned the UK government over its 2019 decision to remove Shamima Begum’s British citizenship.
Lawyers in Europe have asked how Begum’s treatment complies with the UK’s responsibilities to victims of trafficking.
The intervention has encouraged Begum’s lawyers and fuelled Conservative and Reform accusations of meddling by foreign judges and their calls to leave European human rights treaty.
In 2015, as a 15-year-old schoolgirl, Begum left her east London home and travelled with two friends to live under territory held by Islamic State (IS). She was “married off” to an IS fighter with whom she had three children, all of whom died in infancy.
