Shamima Begum has launched a fresh appeal over the loss of her UK citizenship by claiming she was trafficked into Syria as a child to have sex with older men. 
Her lawyers have argued that Miss Begum was influenced by a 'determined and effective ISIS propaganda machine', and should have been treated as a child trafficking victim. If you have any inquiries concerning where and just how to use istanbul Turkey Law Firm, you could call us at our own internet site.  
Dan Squires KC said: 'We can use euphemisms such as jihadi bride or marriage but the purpose of bringing these girls across was so that they could have sex with adult men'. 
But this argument was rejected by an MI5 witness, who said it was 'inconceivable' Miss Begum did not know she was joining a terrorist group when, aged 15, she left her home in Bethnal Green, east London, with fellow pupils Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana in 2015.
Now 23, Miss Begum remains in a detention camp in northern Syria.




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Miss Begum at Gatwick Airport with Ms Abase (left) and Ms Sultana (centre) in 2015.

They were travelling to Turkey and then to Syria

'Our function was to provide the national security threat to the Home Office and that is what we did.
'We assess whether someone is a threat and it is important to note that victims very much can be threats if someone is indeed a victim of trafficking.'
He added: 'In our opinion it is inconceivable that someone would not know what Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was doing as a terrorist organisation at the time.'
He cited the terrorist attack by ISIS on Camp Speicher in which over 1,000 Iraqi cadets were killed, the genocide of the Yazidis in Sinjar and the executions of hostages as well as an ISIS attack on a Jewish supermarket near Paris.
'In my mind and that of colleagues, it is inconceivable that a 15 year old, an A-star pupil, intelligent, articulate and presumably critical-thinking individual, would not know what ISIL was about.
'In some respect I do believe she would have known what she was doing and had agency in doing so.'
Philip Larkin, a witness for the Home Office, told the hearing that there had been 'no formal conclusion' on whether Miss Begum was a victim of human trafficking.
'The Home Secretary wasn't and isn't in a position to take a formal view,' he said.





Miss Begum pictured at the al-Roj camp in Syria earlier this year.

She is fighting to return to the UK after living at the camp for nearly four years

'Part of that is exploiting the vulnerability of children and young people and grooming them to join the movement.'
But the officer said that 'to some degree age is almost irrelevant to ISIL in terms of wishing to get people to travel to the Caliphate.

Their propaganda was there for everyone to see and was not solely limited to minors.'
However, Mr Squires insisted that one of the things ISIS do is 'cynically groom the vulnerable and young to join their movement', adding: 'It is also true that one of the things they did was to groom children in order to offer them as wives to adult men.'
Approximately 60 women and girls had travelled to ISIS-controlled territory, as part of a 'campaign by ISIS to target vulnerable teenagers to become brides for jihadist fighters', including 15 girls who were aged 20 years or younger, according to figures from the Metropolitan Police.
Among them was Miss Begum's friend, Sharmeena Begum, who had travelled to ISIS-controlled territory in Syria as a child aged 15 on December 5 2014.
Of the pair who travelled with Miss Begum, Ms Sultana was reportedly killed in a Russian air raid while Ms Abase is missing.

It has since been claimed that they were smuggled into Syria by a Canadian spy.
A Special Immigration Appeals Commission hearing started yesterday at Field House tribunal centre, London, and is expected to last five days.
After Miss Begum's UK citizenship was revoked, she challenged the Home Office's decision - but the Supreme Court ruled that she was not allowed to enter the UK to pursue her appeal.
Miss Begum continues to be held at the al-Roj camp and has lost three children since travelling to the war zone.





Miss Begum pictured as a schoolgirl.

She left London for Syria in 2015 with two fellow pupils from the Bethnal Green Academy in east London

It comes amid claims that the three schoolgirls were smuggled into Syria by a Canadian spy. 
According to the BBC and The Times, Mohammed Al Rasheed, who is alleged to have been a double agent working for the Canadians, met the girls in Turkey before taking them to Syria in February 2015.
Both news organisations reported that Rasheed was providing information to Canadian intelligence while smuggling people to ISIS, with The Times quoting the book The Secret History Of The Five Eyes.
Moss Begum's family lawyer Tasnime Akunjee previously said in a statement: 'Shamima Begum will have a hearing in the Special Immigration Appeals Commission court, where one of the main arguments will be that when former home secretary Sajid Javid stripped Shamima Begum of her citizenship leaving her in Syria, he did not consider that she was a victim of trafficking.
'The UK has international obligations as to how we view a trafficked person and what culpability we prescribed to them for their actions.'
Ahead of the beginning of her appeal on Monday morning, immigration minister Robert Jenrick said it was 'difficult' for him to comment on her case at this stage.
However, he said people should always have an 'open mind' about how to respond when teenagers make mistakes.
He told Sky News: 'It's difficult for me to comment, I'm afraid...

because we're waiting for the court's judgment.
'Once we hear that, then I'm happy to come on your programme and speak to you.
'I do think as a fundamental principle there will be cases, rare cases...
where people do things and make choices which undermine the UK interest to such an extent that it is right for the Home Secretary to have the power to remove their passport.'
Asked if there is ever room to reconsider where teenagers make mistakes, he said: 'Well, I think you should always have an open mind, but it depends on the scale of the mistake and the harm that that individual did or could have done to UK interests abroad.
'I don't want to comment too much on this case, if that's OK, because we'll find out later what the court's decision was.'




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