Wave Of ISIS Brides To Return To Britain: The Wives Of Muslim Terrorists Who Could Come Back To The UK Under New Proposal - As Furious Tories Urge Starmer Not To 'reward terrorism'
Shamima Begum may be the face of Britain's jihadi bride headache, but more than a dozen other ISIS women could also have to be taken back if ministers accept the finding of a new review.
The Independent Commission on UK Counterterrorism said the 26-year-old and other Britons held in Syrian detention camps such as Al Hol and Al Roj should be repatriated - warning the facilities risked being seen as 'Britain's Guantanamo'.
Reprieve, a human rights charity operating in the Syrian detention camps, estimates they are currently home to around 70 Britons, of which around 20 are women, 40 children and 10 men. Most have not been named.
Those whose identities are known include Shamima Begum's former schoolmate Sharmeena Begum - no relation - who was the first pupil from Bethnal Green Academy in east
London to leave the UK to join
ISIS in 2014.
Amira Abase, 26 - who left with Shamima Begum from the same school two months later - is also believed to remain alive, although her whereabouts are unknown.
Sisters Reema and Zara Iqbal - also from east London and now both in their thirties - were alive as recently as 2019, with Reema in Roj camp and Zara in another unknown facility.
Other British women who fled to join ISIS include 'White Widow' Sally Jones and Aqsa Mahmood, who left Scotland at the age of 19. Jones was killed in an airstrike in 2017 and Mahmood is also believed dead.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer previously criticised the decision to strip Begum of her citizenship, but went on to change his stance by insisting that national security 'comes first'.
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Shamima Begum is only one of more than dozen ISIS women who are currently in Syrian detention camps
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Sharmeena Begum – no relation – was the first schoolgirl from Bethnal Green Academy in east London to flee the UK to join ISIS in 2014
He told the Mail: 'Shamima Begum joined a terrorist organisation that beheaded British citizens, enslaved women, and declared war on our country. The idea that she should stroll back into Britain is beyond comprehension.
'Keir Starmer may lack the backbone to challenge this committee, but his weakness cannot be the basis for Britain's security decisions. We must never reward terrorism.'
Begum had her UK citizenship revoked after joining ISIS but has been pursuing a legal campaign to get it back and return to Britain. She finally lost her court battle last year when her appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court.
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Shamima Begum was 15 when she ran away with Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15. They are all pictured at Gatwick airport
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Sultana is thought to have been killed in an airstrike in Syria
Inside ISIS bride Shamima Begum's life in hell hole refugee camp
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Other British women who fled to join ISIS include '
White Widow' Sally Jones and Aqsa Mahmood, who left Scotland at the age of 19. Jones was killed in an airstrike in 2017 and Mahmood is also believed dead
The Independent Commission on UK Counterterrorism said the 26-year-old and other Britons held in Syrian detention camps should be repatriated.
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