LONDON: Shamima Begum has acknowledged that she joined a terror group but said that she is “just so much more than Daesh.” Giving her first full account of her flight to Syria, she told The BBC podcast “The Shamima Begum Story” that she had been “relieved” to make it out of the UK and said that when she left, she expected never to return.
Ms Begum s lawyers say she was influenced by a determined and effective ISIS propaganda machine , and should have been treated as a child trafficking victim.
Shamima Begum, who was stripped of her British citizenship after joining the Islamic State group in Syria was the victim of propaganda and should be treated as a child trafficking victim, a court in London heard on Monday..The woman, now 23, is one of hundreds of Europeans whose fate follo