ISIS Bride Shamima Begum, 23, Is Barred From Returning To The UK

Sir James Eadie KC, for the department, said there was ‘no ‘credible suspicion’ that she was a victim of trafficking or was at real and immediate risk of being trafficked prior to her travel from the UK.’ Sir James said that the then-home secretary Mr Javid (pictured center) took into account Ms Begum’s age, how she traveled to Syria – including likely online radicalization – and her activity in Syria when making the decision to remove her British citizenship. He added that the Security Services ‘continue to assess that Ms Begum poses a risk to national security.’ Earlier this month, Ms Begum’s mother-in-law called for the runaway ISIS bride to be allowed back into the UK so she can rebuild her life. Speaking for the first time, Ankie Riedijk, the mother of Begum’s jihadist husband Yago, insisted that while they should both face justice for travellng to Syria to join ISIS their governments must take responsibility for them becoming radicalized.

 

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, she said: ‘I am convinced that Shamima should be allowed to go home and build her life there.’ In the first interview she has given since, like Begum, her Muslim convert son absconded to Syria — Mrs Riedijk set out what she thinks should happen to the daughter-in-law she has never met. Standing on the doorstep of her smart, £180,000 ($217,503) end-of-terrace home in Arnhem, a quiet town in The Netherlands, Mrs Riedijk said that she and her husband Lex, a railway engineer, had always hitherto been reluctant to be drawn into the furore regarding Begum’s future. However Mrs Riedijk believes Shamima, and her son Yago (pictured), should be brought back to her home country where they should be judged for their actions, effectively stateless without a passport and living in a refugee camp in Syria. She was reluctant to go into detail, but Mrs Reidijk seemed the suggest that governments need to take responsibility for their own radicalized young citizens rather than leave them in a stateless limbo.