Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to the UK to rebuild her life, her mother-in-law has said. Ms Begum is banned from coming back to Britain and has been stripped of her citizenship after she travelled to the Islamic State in Syria in 2015.
But Ankie Riedijk, the mother of Ms Begum's Dutch husband Yago Riedijk, says she should be granted permission to come back. Ms Begum is challenging the Government in a bid to have her citizenship reinstated.
Mr Riedijk married Ms Begum when he was 23 and she was 15, days after she arrived in Syria. They had three children together, all of whom died. The pair are still legally married but have not seen one another since ISIS lost the ground war in Syria in 2019, The Mirror reports.
