UK Failed To Protect Shamima Begum: Lawyer

London: Shamima Begum, a British teenager of Bangladeshi descent who ran away in 2015 to become an Islamic State (IS) jihadi bride, was “groomed and radicalized” due to a failure by UK authorities to protect her from the influence of extremists, a lawyer representing her family said. Begum, 19, was one of three schoolgirls to leave her home in London to join the terror group and resurfaced at a Syrian refugee camp earlier this year. The lawyer for Begum’s family in a letter accused Home Secretary Sajid Javid of cancelling the citizenship of the teenager to “further his ambitions of becoming Prime Minister”, describing the case as “human fly-tipping”, the BBC reported. (IANS)

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