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Could Shamima Begum return to UK under Labour? Independent review says she should be saved from ‘Britain’s Guantanamo’ camp in Syria

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Shamima Begum should be allowed back into the UK, a review of Britain’s counter-terrorism policy has found. The ISIS bride is currently living in a detention camp in Syria after she fled her home in east London at the age of 15 to join Islamic State in 2015.  But the Independent Commission on UK Counterterrorism concluded after […]

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The wall outside the tent where British ISIS bride Shamima Begum has languished for years in Camp Roj

Shamima Begum’s wall of despair: Messages scrawled in English beside British ISIS bride’s tent reveal anguish in god-forsaken Syrian camp where she now resides

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‘Hell is other people.’ ‘Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes… it’s awful!’ ‘From a hundred rabbits you can’t make a horse, a hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.’ These powerful, despairing words are nestled in the pages of world-famous books and plays penned by some of history’s most acclaimed writers.  But they are also plastered […]

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