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Renu, the eldest sister of missing British girl Shamima Begum, is holding a photo of her sister while being interviewed by the media in central London on February 22, 2015.
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ISIS bride Shamima Begum was left “angry, upset and crying” after a court ruled she could not return to Britain to fight to regain her British citizenship.
The now 21-year-old is being held in a detention camp in northern Syria after the British Supreme Court unanimously rejected her request to return to Britain on Friday.
The decision to block her return to Britain devastated her. ‘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 London schoolgirls left Britain to join the Caliphate. Her citizenship was revoked in 2019 for national security reasons. The other two are believed to have died in the fighting.
She has lost three children born in the years since, the last boy born in 2019 after marrying an ISIS fighter from the Netherlands. That year, she told Sky News that her first two children died ‘from illness’ in a camp.
Begum was spotted by ITV News Friday after the ruling passed through camp, wearing sunglasses, leggings and a jacket in place of the veil and robes in which she had previously been seen.
She does not speak to the press on the advice of her attorneys, who expect to continue appealing for her citizenship revocation.