Isis Briton Shamima Begum pleads to return to UK after giving birth

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Isis Briton Shamima Begum pleads to return to UK after giving birth

Nineteen-year-old who fled UK in 2015 asks for sympathy day after her son’s birth

Frances Perraudin and Vikram Dodd
Sun 17 Feb 2019 23.40 GMT

A teenager who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State has called on people in the UK to have sympathy for her, the day after giving birth to a boy in a refugee camp.

Shamima Begum, 19, who left the UK with two school friends in 2015, spoke to the Times while heavily pregnant earlier this week from the al-Hawl refugee camp in north-eastern Syria. She said she was desperate to come back to the UK.

Her family’s lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, said Begum had given birth on Saturday and that, though they had not had direct contact with her, they understood that both she and the baby were in good health.

Speaking to Sky News on Sunday while sitting with her newborn, she said: “I feel a lot of people should have sympathy for me, for everything I’ve been through. You know, I didn’t know what I was getting into when I left.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/17/shamima-begum-who-fled-uk-to-join-isis-has-given-birth-say-family

[Laffy Kat]

1. I heard on a BBC report that she had "no regrets" about her decision to move to Syria.

Now she's contrite?

[nycbos]

2. You are quite right

[Jake Stern]

3. She also said she had a "good time"

She should be made to stay and keep on letting the good times roll.

[Laffy Kat]

4. Her first two children died while she was over there...

And yet she had a good time? I think she's a security risk.

[delisen]

5. Possibly saying otherwise might be dangerous to her and the child

[Laffy Kat]

7. Good point. Guess I should give her the benefit of the doubt. nt

[delisen]

6. She seems very depressed, verging on despair.

She was 15 when she left, a minor.