Shamima Begum: Still banned from the UK
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The former ISIS bride, now 23 years old, remains in a refugee camp in northern Syria as the Home Office's decision to deprive her of British citizenship was upheld.
On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood is joined by Richard Barrett, the former director of global terrorism operations at MI6, who contributed to the appeal report to discuss the advice he gave. Plus, Sky's Middle East correspondent Alastair Bunkall, who has visited Begum in Syria, walks us through her transition from London schoolgirl to ISIS bride - and now, a stateless refugee.
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| 1:00.6 | I remember first hearing Shemima Begham's name. It was 2015 and I'd received a call from the |
| 1:06.3 | news desk where I was working at the time, telling me to get to Scotland Yard for a press conference |
| 1:10.9 | that was being pulled together really quickly. It was an off-camera briefing for journalists about |
| 1:16.7 | something significant and that was pretty much all we knew. Few could have predicted what we were |
| 1:22.0 | about to be told and there was a sense of shock in the room as we heard that three schoolgirls |
| 1:27.3 | from East London had fled the country and police now believed they were on their way to join ISIS in Syria. |
| 1:33.6 | The parents are devastated and they had no including at all, no indication that these three girls were going to travel and no idea whatsoever. |
| 1:42.7 | And it was a complete surprise. |
| 1:44.3 | Detectives were very concerned about their welfare, their whereabouts. |
| 1:48.5 | Detectives believe all three missing girls are still in Turkey. |
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