Individuals who join IS pose security risk ‘whatever their age’, UK court hears

Her British citizenship was revoked on national security grounds shortly after she was found, nine months pregnant, in a Syrian refugee camp in February last year.

Shamima Begum wants to return to the UK to pursue her appeall. Picture: PA

Individuals who went to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State group (IS) pose a “real and serious” risk to national security “whatever sympathy might be generated by the age of the person when they travelled”, the Supreme Court in the UK has heard.

Shamima Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls travelled to Syria to join IS in February 2015.