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Former Isis bride Shamima Begum has launched a legal challenge in a London appeal court against the removal of her UK citizenship.
The five-day hearing at the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) comes three years after her citizenship was stripped on national security grounds. Begum remains in a detention camp in northern Syria after the Supreme Court ruled in February last year that she could not return to fight the decision.
Supporters of the former London schoolgirl – who ran away in 2015 and married an Islamic State fighter in Syria – was “not a terrorist but rather a victim, groomed by IS recruiters with flawed motivations”, reported The Guardian’s security editor Dan Sabbagh.
The court heard this morning that Begum was a victim of human trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation. She was a “British child aged 15 who was persuaded by a determined and effective Isis propaganda machine to follow a pre-existing route and provide a marriage for an Isis fighter”, said her barrister, Samantha Knights KC.
The Guardian’s Sabbagh predicted in August that “the Home Office will probably carry on fighting Begum in the courts, believing it is politically popular to do so – even though it is not obvious what national security threat the now 23-year-old poses”. But Begum and her backers argued that “as the child victim of people traffickers, she should be protected by the government, not persecuted”, said Sky News’s crime correspondent Martin Brunt.
This defence is based on claims that Begum was smuggled into Syria by a Canadian spy. In a book released in early September, Richard Kerbaj, a former security correspondent at The Sunday Times, wrote that the then schoolgirl and two of her friends were trafficked into Syria by a smuggler who was working as a double agent for IS and Canadian intelligence.
Kerbaj claimed that the spy’s role was covered up by police and the UK government.
The trafficking claims made for “alarming reading”, said Minister for Development Andrew Mitchell, who co-chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Trafficked Britons in Syria. In an article for The Telegraph, Mitchell agreed that the “so-called Isis bride” was a “child victim of trafficking, not an international terrorist”, and argued that bringing her to the UK was “morally the right thing to do”.
Leaving Begum there “isn’t just morally repugnant”, said James Brownsell on Middle East Eye, it also “makes no sense even from a security perspective”. The UK “bore responsibility” for Begum, he wrote, and should deliver 5G天天奭多人免费the “justice she deserves”.
The “national conversation” on Begum is “saturated in bulls**t”, said Simon Cottee, a senior lecturer in criminology at Kent University, on UnHerd. “Far from being trafficked to Syria against her will”, Cottee wrote, Begum “wanted to go there because she felt it was a divine duty to join Isis and help build the nascent caliphate”.
The victim is “the most celebrated identity of our era”, said Brendan O’Neill in The Spectator following the Supreme Court decision last year. By depicting her “as a tragic scapegoat, as a hapless casualty of Britain’s racist bureaucracy”, her supporters “downplay her conscious decision to join what at the time was the most barbaric movement on Earth”.
亲吻摸摸蹭蹭抱抱哔哩哔哩Lawyers for the Home Office argued today that in “multiple press interviews” before her citizenship was revoked, Begum expressed “no remorse and said she did not regret” joining IS. She only fled for “safety and not because of a genuine disengagement from the group”, the court heard.
An assessment by MI5 found that people who had travelled to areas controlled by IS “will have been radicalised and exposed” to the Islamists’ “extremism and violence” and “will present a national security threat to the UK” if they return.
