"Shamima Begum is living on 100-a-week donations from friends and family while stuck in a Syrian detention camp, reports suggest. The former London schoolgirl, 26, who joined Islamic State as a teenager a decade ago, is reportedly enjoying small luxuries including beauty treatments as she fights to restore her British citizenship. In 2015, Begum fled the UK aged 15 with friends Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana who became known as the Bethnal Green Trio to travel to Syria and join ISIS."
"Shortly after arriving in ISIS territory Begum married Yago Riedijk, 33, a Dutch national with Somali heritage who converted to Islam and became a fighter for the terrorist organisation. It is understood that Reidijk who shared three children with Begum, all of whom have since passed away is now behind bars in a Kurdish-run Syrian jail. Begum is allegedly receiving up to 400 per month, which is transferred to a makeshift bank by loved ones in the UK."
Shamima Begum left the UK in 2015 at age 15 with friends Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana to travel to Syria and join ISIS. She married Yago Riedijk, a Dutch national who became an ISIS fighter; the couple shared three children who have since died, and Riedijk is held in a Kurdish-run Syrian jail. Begum is residing at the al-Roj refugee camp in Al Hasakah, a fortified tent compound criticised by the Red Cross as volatile. She receives cash transfers (allegedly up to 400 per month) used for phone top-ups, shopping, clothing parcels, and modest comforts in a tent with utilities.
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