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Renu, older sister of the missing British Shamima Begum, holds a photo of her sister while being interviewed by the media in central London on February 22, 2015.
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ISIS’s bride, Shamima Begum, was “angry, upset and crying” after a court ruled that she could not return to Britain to fight to get her British citizenship back.
The 21-year-old is being held in a detention camp in northern Syria after the UK Supreme Court unanimously rejected her request to return to Britain on Friday.
The decision to block his return to Britain left her devastated. “She is very angry. And she is very upset and crying. She doesn’t want to talk to us, ”friends told Sky News.
Begum was 15 when she and two other students from London left Britain to join the caliphate. His citizenship was revoked for national security reasons in 2019. The other two are believed to have died in the conflict.
She lost three children born in the following years, the last a boy born in 2019 after she married an ISIS fighter from the Netherlands. That year, she told Sky News that her first two children died “of illness” in a camp.
Begum was spotted by ITV News on Friday after the sentence walking through the camp, wearing sunglasses, leggings and a jacket instead of the veil and robes she was seen before.
She is not speaking to the press on the advice of her lawyers, who hope to continue the appeal to revoke her citizenship.