Family of UK ISIL bride to sue govt

The family of 19-year-old ISIL bride Shamima Begum have reveled that they intend to contest the decision of the UK Home Office to strip their daughter of her citizenship.

In a letter to Sajid Javid, UK’s home secretary, Begum’s family say they “cannot simply abandon her” and that her status is “a matter for our British courts”.

But the family also added that they were “sickened by the comments she has made” recently.

Begum is now making moves to seek Dutch citizenship after she was told the British Home Office had issued an order to revoke her citizenship days after she declared her intention to return home.

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According to Begum, one of the three British schoolgirls who left the UK in 2015 to live in ISIL’s so-called “caliphate”, she will explore the option of seeking Dutch citizenship.

She also described the order of the Home Office to revoke her citizenship as ‘kind of heart-breaking.
“I don’t know what to say,” Begum, who ran away when she was 15 to live under ISIL, told ITV News on Wednesday.

“I am not that shocked but I am a bit shocked. It’s a bit upsetting and frustrating. I feel like it’s a bit unjust on me and my son”.

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