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UK court urged to treat ‘IS bride’ as a child trafficking victim
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UK court urged to treat ‘IS bride’ as a child trafficking victim

A woman lost her British citizenship after enlisting in the militant Islamic State (IS) movement as an ‘IS bride’ in Syria. She was the target of propaganda in the British court recently. The court is urging to treat alleged women like a victim of child trafficking. In 2015, she was 15 years old when she and two school friends left their east London home to travel to Syria. She married an IS fighter and gave birth to three children in Syria. However, none of her newborns survived. British journalists later found her in a camp in Syria in February 2019. During her initial interviews, she appeared to have no remorse whatsoever. This gesture outraged people to the core. People declared her an "IS bride" and stripped her of her British citizenship. This move left her stranded in Syria's Ro...