Former Isis recruit seeking to return to UK is not permitted to use phone at Syrian detention camp, UK supreme court hears
Shamima Begum would be beaten or placed in isolation in the Syrian detention camp where she is being held if she speaks by mobile phone to British lawyers challenging her deprivation of UK citizenship, the supreme court has been told.
The woman who left east London as a 15-year-old schoolgirl in 2015 to join Islamic State forces, is unable to communicate effectively with her legal team and will not be able to participate in any meaningful way in proceedings while she is in captivity, the court heard.
