UK minister under fire as IS bride’s baby dies
LONDON: UK home secretary Sajid Javid is facing criticism after the baby son of Shamima Begum died in a Syrian camp.
Ms Begum left London to join the Islamic State group aged 15.
Mr Javid (pictured) revoked her British citizenship when the teenager asked to return.
A family friend said the UK had failed to safeguard the child, while Labour said his death was the result of a “callous and inhumane” decision. A UK government spokesman said the death of any child was “tragic”.
The spokesman said the government had consistently advised against travelling to Syria and would “continue to do whatever we can to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and travelling to dangerous conflict zones”.
Ms Begum, who left the UK in 2015 with two school friends, was found by a journalist from the Times in a Syrian refugee camp in mid-February.
She said she had been living with her husband, a Dutch IS fighter, in IS’s last stronghold and had previously lost two children, blaming the inhospitable conditions.
Nine months pregnant, she told the paper she did not regret joining IS, but that she felt the “caliphate” was at an end.
And speaking shortly after the birth of her son, Jarrah, she told the BBC she wished her child to be British and to be raised in the UK.
Jarrah died of pneumonia on Thursday, according to a medical certificate. He was less than three weeks old.
Conservative MP and former justice minister Phillip Lee urged the government to “reflect” on its “moral responsibility” for the tragedy.
He said that despite her “abhorrent views” the decision to remove Ms Begum’s citizenship — and therefore deny her the chance of returning to the UK — seemed “driven by populism and not by any principle I recognise”.
Conditions in the camp were “pretty appalling”, with a shortage of food, blankets and tents, BBC sources said.
– BBC
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