British justice rules on return of girl who joined IS

The British Supreme Court rules on Friday February 26 on the case of Shamima Begum, a 21-year-old young woman who joined the jihadist group Islamic State in Syria and wants to return to the United Kingdom to challenge her deprivation of nationality.

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Then 15 years old, Shamima Begum, left in 2015 with two friends the United Kingdom, where she was born and raised, for Syria.

There, she married an IS jihadist of Dutch origin, eight years her senior.

Now detained by the Syrian Democratic forces in the Al-Roj camp, she wants to return to the United Kingdom to request to recover her British nationality, from which she was deprived in 2019, following an interview in the Times or she affirmed not to regret anything, assuring to have led a "

"

life

in Raqqa and not to have been "

" by the vision of a severed head in a trash can.

This statement shocked British public opinion, marked by a series of attacks in 2017 claimed by IS.

"Fair and equitable"

In support of its decision, London had invoked the possibility for the young woman to apply for the nationality of the country of origin of her parents, Bangladesh.

But Dhaka retorted that she had never applied for nationality and refused to welcome it.

Engaged in a complex legal battle, Shamima Begum had won a milestone victory in mid-July: the London Court of Appeal considered that returning to the United Kingdom was for her the only "

" to challenge the authorities' decision to deprive her of her British nationality.

But the government has taken the Supreme Court to challenge this decision.

At the hearing before the high court last November, Home Office lawyer James Eadie pleaded that the return of the young woman on British soil would represent a risk for "

".

Those who like Shamima Begum have made the trip to Syria "

" the lawyer stressed.

After fleeing the fighting in the east of the country with him, the young woman found herself in February 2019 in a Syrian refugee camp where she gave birth to a baby, who died a few weeks after her birth.

Her first two children, born while in Syria, also died.