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Shamima Begum lost a court bid on Wednesday to take her case to the UK Supreme Court after being stripped of her citizenship.
Shamima Begum, who went to Syria to join the Islamic State group when she was 15, lost her latest appeal on Friday over the removal of her British citizenship.
![Renu Begum, eldest sister of Shamima Begum, then 15, holds her sister's photo as she is interviewed by the media at New Scotland Yard, as the relatives of three missing schoolgirls believed to have fled to Syria to join Islamic State pleaded for them to return home [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/2022-07/GettyImages-464129912%20%281%29.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=31sSDihx)
Canada will look into claims that a spy working for its intelligence trafficked Shamima Begum and two other British teenagers to the Syrian border, where they entered IS-controlled territory
![Shamima Begum spoke to Good Morning Britain from a refugee camp in Syria [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/2021-09/shamima%20begum_0.PNG?h=5b9a46df&itok=RwzzkqDN)
Shamima Begum, who left her home as a 15-year-old teenager and travelled to Syria to marry an Islamic State fighter, is urging the Britain to allow her to return and be given a 'fair trial'.
The lawyer for the former IS bride, who is challenging a decision to revoke her British citizenship on national security grounds, claimed Begum was "a child trafficked to Syria for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced marriage".
Shamima Begum who went to Syria as a teenager to join Islamic State was likely 'a child victim of trafficking', her lawyers tell a London court.
Book Club: Sayeeda Warsi highlights the unfair treatment of Muslims in the UK, but her heavy focus on 'good Muslims' does not fully challenge the issue
Book Club: The case of Shamima Begum and British 'jihadi brides' has polarised British society, with vast swathes of the population encouraging their mistreatment. But what motivated their decision to travel, and are they as monstrous as they seem?
Some of the UK’s most famous faces have backed a campaign calling on the UK government to repatriate families held for years in dangerous and violent camps in northeast Syria.
Human rights group Reprieve said the woman - the first adult to have been repatriated by the British government since the territorial defeat of the Islamic State three years ago - had been a victim of trafficking.