Shamima Begum’s case is a 'paradigm example of child trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation,” her lawyers have said
Ms Begum is challenging the Home Office's decision to remove her British citizenship, with her lawyers arguing that the department had a legal duty to investigate whether the then-teenager was a victim of trafficking when the decision was made.
Her British citizenship was revoked on national security grounds shortly after she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019. The officer said the groups' actions around the time included large terror attacks and the public beheadings of multiple people - including journalist James Foley and aid worker Peter Kassig in 2014.
At the start of Monday's hearing, Samantha Knights KC, also for Ms Begum, said the woman had been "persuaded, influenced and affected with her friends by a determined and effective Isis propaganda machine". Her lawyers said that the Home Office deprived Ms Begum of her citizenship "without seeking to investigate and determine, still less consider, whether she was a child victim of trafficking and whether there were failures by public authorities in the UK to prevent her being trafficked".
"This is a case about national security," he said, later adding: "This is not a case about trafficking."
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