I Was Sex-Trafficked To ISIS, Insists Shamima

Shamima Begum claims it took less than a year to transform her from a schoolgirl “angel” to Isis bride.

- Andrew Drury and Richard Ashmore

The 22-year-old insists she was “100 per cent” sex-trafficked into the death cult at 15 by go-between men finding brides for fighters.

Shamima, who left her Bethnal Green home in East London to join the terrorist group, now fears she will be a prisoner forever in Al-Roj camp in Kurdish-controlled north-eastern Syria – where she has been held since 2019.

As a 15-year-old in 2015, she fled the UK with her schoolfriends Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana to join Isis.

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Kadiza died in an airstrike and Shamima said Amira, whose whereabouts are officially unknown, is also dead.