Shamima Begum
Shamima Begum (born 25 August 1999) is a woman who left the UK aged 15 to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria. Her intention to return to the UK in 2019 resulted in a public debate about the handling of returning jihadists. In February 2019, the British government issued an order revoking her British citizenship and later clarified that she would never be allowed to return. In July 2020, however, the Court of Appeal ruled that Begum should be permitted to return to the UK, so that she could fairly contest this decision by instructing lawyers properly. This ruling is subject to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Begum was born in England to parents of Bangladeshi heritage. She was brought up in the Bethnal Green area of London where she received her secondary education at the Bethnal Green Academy. Together with her friends Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana, she left the UK in February 2015, at the age of fifteen. The trio travelled via Turkey, to join the jihad in Syria.
Shortly after her disappearance, Begum's family hoped to learn that she and her school friends had only travelled to ISIL territory to bring back their friend Sharmeena Begum (no relation), who had travelled there in 2014.
The education secretary, Nicky Morgan, said in February 2015 that everyone hoped and prayed for the safe return of the three girls to the UK.
Ten days after arriving in Syria, she married Dutch-born Yago Riedijk, who had converted to Islam and arrived in Syria in October 2014. (This marriage may not be recognised under Dutch law since she was underage at the time. ) She had three children. The elder two died. Her youngest child was born in a refugee camp in February 2019 and, in March 2019, reportedly had died of a lung infection.
Sources told The Daily Telegraph that Begum served in ISIL's "morality police", and also tried to recruit other young women to join the jihadist group. She was allowed to carry a Kalashnikov rifle and earned a reputation as a strict enforcer of ISIL's laws, such as dress codes for women. Additionally, an anti-ISIL activist told The Independent that there are separate allegations of "Begum [stitching] suicide bombers into explosive vests so they could not be removed without detonating"
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