The mother of Shamima Begum a London girl who ran away to join ISIS in Syria urged the UK government on Monday to reinstate the teenager’s British citizenship after she lost her third child.
She has urged the government to reconsider the decision to revoke her daughter’s British citizenship.
A letter to the Home Office from the family’s lawyer – written on behalf of Asma Begum – asked the Home Office to do so as “an act of mercy”.
It said this was in light of the news the teenager’s newborn son had died last week.
Begum, now 19, had asked to return home after giving birth to a son last month in a refugee camp in northeastern Syria, but London refused. The three-week-old baby, Jarrah, has since died from pneumonia.
She has told British media that her two other children died in infancy in Syria
Ms Begum left London to join the Islamic State group when she was 15.
When she was found in a Syrian refugee camp last month, she gave an interview in which she said did not regret joining IS.