![]() ![]() He is also being held in detention in northern Syria after he was captured by Kurdish forces.īAFTAs 2023: All the best moments from the BAFTAS as it happened - everything you need to know HERE Riedijk, now 29, was tried in the Netherlands for terrorist offences and sentenced to six years in his absence. They claim ISIS deliberately recruited underage girls for sexual exploitation and child marriage because they were needed for the 'bearing of children, which was an important feature of its state-building project'. Her lawyers told an appeal there is 'overwhelming' evidence that she was groomed and trafficked by ISIS for the purpose of 'sexual exploitation and marriage to an adult male'. She is challenging the Home Office decision and is in a legal battle with the British government to have her citizenship restored so she can return to London. Home Secretary Sajid Javid then decided to take the highly unusual step to strip her of her British nationality, on national security grounds.īegum, now 23, accepts that she broke anti-terror laws by joining ISIS. Interviews that Begum gave to British journalists about her life under ISIS caused outrage. The east London schoolgirl was discovered in a Kurdish-run ISIS detention camp in 2019, four years after she disappeared. But two died of disease or malnutrition and the third, born after Begum was captured by Western-backed Kurdish forces, died of pneumonia in the prison camp in northern Syria where she is being held. The couple went on to have three children. My entire life I'd been surrounded by women so being with a man was a new concept for me.' She added: 'It was exciting for me because I'd never been in a relationship. Ten days after arriving in the so-called Caliphate Shamima married Yago. Shamima and the other girls had agreed to become 'jihadi brides' for Islamic State fighters. The trio were captured on CCTV at a bus station in Istanbul where they met up with a member of ISIS who later smuggled them across the border to Syria. Together with Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana, she took a flight to Turkey after watching ISIS propaganda video online. Meanwhile is wife Shamima was just 15 when she disappeared from her home in Bethnal Green, east London, with two friends in February 2015. While in Syria he sent a photograph home showing him in military uniform, describing himself as a soldier and asking for money. Prosecutors said police had recovered a photograph on Reidijk's family computer of him carrying a weapon that appeared to be a Kalashnikov. Last summer he was convicted in his absence of membership of a terrorist organisation, which usually results in a six-year jail sentence. Her two companions are believed to have died there In 2015, Begum (centre), then 15, and her school friends Kadiza Sultana (left), also 15, and Amira Abase (right), 16, fled their east London homes to join Islamic State.
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