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Shamima Begum a 'recluse' in Syrian camp as she dons sports wear and 'won't talk'

The Bethnal Green schoolgirl 'wont engage' since her British citizenship was revoked for running away from home to join ISIS and become a death cult bride, along with two friends

[Shamima Begum]

The former ISIS bride has become a recluse and won't speak to anyone(Image: BBC)

Jihadi bride Shamima Begum is a recluse in the Syrian detainment camp she now calls home, it is claimed. The infamous schoolgirl runaway, now 26, "refuses to speak to anyone" at the sprawling camp set up for the exiled foreign women of Isis.

Begum, from Bethnal Green in east London, left her family at just 16 join the Islamic State (ISIS) with two pals in 2015. After 10 days, she became a child bride to a Dutch Islamic convert, with whom she had three children, who all died as infants.

A decade on, she has been stripped of her British citizenship and left to languish in the Al-Roj Camp in north eastern Syria The camp has been dubbed a holding pen under Kurdish control for the women and children of ISIS fighters.

[Shamima Begum]

Shamima has recoiled from people after her British citizenship was revoked(Image: GB News)

Following the collapse of ISIS in 2017, Begum was first spotted in the al-Hawl camp in North Syria by chance in February 2019. Six months later, her British passport was revoked.

Since been rendered stateless, camp administrator Hukmia Ibrahim said Begum has become a recluse and no longer wears full Islamic dress. Ibrahim told MailOnline: She refuses to speak to anyone.

"She used to wear full Islamic dress but now shes always in sports clothes. She stays in her tent and wont engage. She adopted this attitude after she was stripped of her nationality. Once I took a journalist to her tent. She pushed us out.

[Shamima Begum]

She fled London in 2015 to join ISIS(Image: METROPOLITAN POLICE/AFP via Gett)

Ibrahim goes on to say that the camp was set up for families fleeing ISIS and Al Qaedas Syrian franchise Jabot al-Nursa.

She said: "Now we have 765 families here, around 2,300 people from 50 nationalities. Only a handful of Syrian and Iraqi refugee families remain. The rest are ISIS wives and children.

Ibrahim admitted that ISIS ideology still bubbles away within the camp, adding: When you visit the inmates they seem normal. But when Turkish attacks on Kurdish positions are reported nearby, they demonstrate, shouting that Turkeys coming to save them.

[Shamima Begum]

She was first spotted in a refugee camp in 2019, after ISIS collapsed in 2017(Image: PA)

When [former jihadi and new Syrian President] Ahmed al-Sharaas militia group took control of Damascus, inmates started handing out sweets in the camp. Some came to me and said, Tomorrow you will be in our place and youll see how it feels. If you visit their tents, you can see bags packed; they are ready to renew their Islamic Caliphate.

At its peak, ISIS saw around 53,000 foreigners from 80 counties sign up, with the death cult responsible for the Paris massacre of 2015, which killed 130 people, an attack in Brussels in 2016 that killed 32 and another in Nice the same year that killed 86.

On British soil, ISIS were responsible for the Manchester Arena attack in 2017 that killed 22 and injured more than 1,000 people.

[Shamima Begum]

She also no longer wears the full Islamic dress, choosing to wear sporty clothes instead(Image: BBC)

While Shamima has exhausted appeals within the British system, her lawyers have suggested she will appeal her citizenship stripping at the European Court of Human Rights.

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