the a lawyer representing the family of shamima begum, the of shamima begum, who left east london for, has written to the home secretary accusing the government of failing to protect her from being trafficked by the islamic state group. the letter, which has been seen by the bbc, claims the begum family wasn't told that their daughter had been interviewed by the police after a girl at her school went to syria in 2014. the family is calling on sajid javid to reverse his decision to revoke their daughter's citizenship. hanna yusuf reports. stripped of her british citizenship and held in a syrian refugee camp, shamima begum faces an uncertain future. she left her home in east london with two school friends, despite having been spoken to by the police. the school gave the girls letters to give to their parents, but the letters never reached them and the bethnal green girls slipped out of the uk. but according to her lawyer, shamima begum was targeted and trafficked by islamic state. isis have a propaganda machine where they reached out to the world into the mobile phone of shamima begum a

a lawyerfor shamima begum has written to the british home secretary accusing the uk authorities of failingby islamic state fighters. ms begum was "groomed" and "trafficked to isis controlled territory", according to the letter, seen by the bbc. it cites multiple failings by authorities to safeguard the then 15—year—old schoolgirl. hanna yusuf reports. stripped of her british citizenship and held in a syrian refugee camp, shamima begum faces an uncertain future. she left her home in east london with two school friends. they managed to travel despite a close friend having made thejourney managed to travel despite a close friend having made the journey to syria months earlier. according to her lawyer, shamima begum was targeted and trafficked by islamic state. isis have a propaganda machine where they reached out to the world, into the mobile phone of shamima begum and managed to groom her, eating her the advice that she needed to successfully, as a 15—year—old girl, evade uk police, counterterrorism, across a border between syria and turkey and find herself betrothed in an isis ceremony to a

according to her lawyer, shamima begum was targeted and trafficked by islamic state.nda machine where they reached out to the world, into the mobile phone of shamima begum, and managed to groom her, giving her the advice that she needed to successfully, as a 15—year—old girl, evade uk police, counterterrorism, cross a border between syria and turkey and find herself betrothed under an isis ceremony to a 23—year—old man. the letter to the home secretary cites failures by the uk authorities to stop the three girls from leaving for syria. it claims the families should have been warned the girls were at risk of being trafficked for exploitation by isis fighters. police say there was no sign that any of the girls, who were pupils at bethnal green academy, were vulnerable or radicalised. the home office won't comment on the case but says decisions to deprive individuals of their citizenship are not taken lightly. shamima begum's family are challenging that decision but say the little hope they had when she was first found has been stolen from them. for others, shejoined is

shamima begum was born in the uk, raised in the uk, trafficked from the uk and is a uk problem.cision so that she comes back to the uk and faces uk justice. for reaction let's go back nikita malik, director of the centre on radicalisation and terrorism at the henry jackson society think tank and to cris mccurley, international family lawyer who has worked on many of these cases and is aware of the khurshid family's case. nikita, do you think that the issues that are raised in this letter about talking about multiple failings by authorities to safeguard shamima begum are reasonable criticisms? well, i think we've been speaking about this case for some time, i've been on this programme twice before to speak about shamima begum and i do think that an audit is necessary, but blaming the state for shortcomings i think... we can only do that if an audit is done. we also have to keep in mind that there were seven goals. we talk about the three girls who made it to islam in state, there were four girls who actually stopped, and we were talking about wardship before this segment, wardshi

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according to her lawyer, shamima begum was targeted and trafficked by islamic state.d, into the mobile phone of shamima begum, and managed to groom her, giving her the advice that she needed to successfully, as a 15—year—old girl, evade uk police, counterterrorism, cross a border between syria and turkey and find herself betrothed under an isis ceremony to a 23—year—old man. the letter to the home secretary cites failures by the uk authorities to stop the three girls from leaving for syria. it claims the families should have been warned the girls were at risk of being trafficked for exploitation by is fighters. police say there was no sign that any of the girls, who were pupils at bethnal green academy, were vulnerable or radicalised. the home office won't comment on the case but says decisions to deprive individuals of their citizenship are not taken lightly. shamima begum's family are challenging that decision but say the little hope they had when she was first found has been stolen from them. for others, shejoined is willingly and should face the consequences. hann