Olympic Park tower sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor calls Britain’s treatment of jihadi bride Shamima Begum ‘disgraceful’ claiming she’d be returned safely to the UK ‘if she was white’ Anish Kapoor designed the ArcelorMittal Orbit artwork in London’s Olympic Park He criticised Britain’s treatment of Shamima Begum who joined ISIS in 2015 Ms Begum’s citizenship was revoked … Read more
Shamima Begum will find out if she can potentially return to the UK to pursue an appeal against the removal of her British citizenship when the Supreme Court rules on her case. Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group (IS) in … Read more
A former London schoolgirl who ran away to Syria with two friends in February 2015 to join ISIS faces beatings and being placed in isolation if she tries to contact her lawyers. Shamima Begum, who was 15 when she and two other schoolgirls flew to Syria in February 2015, is appealing against a government decision … Read more
ISIS bride Shamima Begum’s bid to return to the UK has heard that radical converts coming back ‘pose a clear and serious threat’ to national security. The 21-year-old’s case is being considered by the Supreme Court after her British Citizenship was revoked by then Home Secretary Savid Javid. Begum, currently in the Al Hawl refugee camp in Syria, … Read more
Labour MP Apsana Begum is charged with housing fraud after questions arose over how she acquired her £300,000 Thames-side council flat in just six months Labour MP Apsana Begum, 30, has been charged with council housing fraud She’s accused of three offences in relation to an Isle of Dogs flat in east London MP denied wrongdoing … Read more
ISIS’ British ‘matchmaker’ British mother-of-one Tooba Gondal, 25, moved to London as a child and had previously claimed that she had permanent British residence but the Home Office issued her with an exclusion order last November, which bars her from ever returning to the UK. The mother-of-two studied at Goldsmith’s University in London and is … Read more
Revealed: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer led the charge to allow ISIS bride Shamima Begum to return to Britain amid signs of a split among Tory MPs Sir Keir Starmer led a chorus of support for Shamima Begum’s return last year He said in 2019 that stripping Begum of UK citizenship ‘was the wrong decision’ The … Read more
Jihadi bride Shamima Begum is overjoyed that she will see her family and her country again after a court ruled she should be allowed to come back to Britain, MailOnline can reveal. The 20-year-old, who fled her home in London five years ago to join ISIS, is nervous about the reception she will receive but … Read more
The lawyer representing the family of jihadi bride Shamima Begum today made the extraordinary admission that ‘nobody can be sure’ if she is still a terror threat to Britain – but insisted that she should be allowed to return to the UK anyway. Tasnime Akunjee also declared that a ‘lack of technology’ in the Syrian … Read more
A slight, watchful figure, she perched on a sofa in the camp commandant’s office studying me. Having had no visitors for many months, she was very wary. ‘What are you?’ she asked finally. I didn’t need to ask her the same question. By then her face was instantly recognisable; the so-called poster girl for Islamic … Read more