Shamima Begum joined IS 'with her eyes open', say government lawyers
Sir James told the tribunal: "The assessment made by the Security Service [MI5] was that [Ms Begum's] travel was voluntary and demonstrated her determination and commitment to aligning with Isil."He went on: "She travelled for the purpose of aligning with Isil, and once in Syria she did in fact align with Isil."The ideology of Isil and their uncompromising brutality had been widely covered in the media.
Ms Begum's lawyers argue the then Home Secretary Sajid Javid should have taken into account she was trafficked to Syria for sexual exploitation purposesShe left her home in London in February 2015 with her two school friends Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana. Within days she was in IS-controlled territory in Syria and was soon married to an IS fighter.
Sir James said Ms Begum had been "further radicalised and desensitised to violence" during her four years in IS territory before she was captured, and pointed out in her first interviewsHe added there have been cases where women have plotted terror attacks on the UK, and Britain had learned about the threat it faced in the "hard school" of "repeated deaths, including children, in the UK".
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