Aviator sunglasses perched on her head, flashing fingernails with bright pink nail varnish and wearing a casual shirt, Shamima Begum looks like any young woman her age.
But the 23-year-old Londoner, the former Jihadi bride and member of terrorist group ISIS, is trying to explain why she fled a comfortable family home to join a brutal genocidal regime.
“I thought I was going to an Islamic utopia,” she insists. “I did not know about the atrocities.”